Economy Quotes by Noam Chomsky

In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a…

— Noam Chomsky

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual…

— Noam Chomsky

If Palestinian Authority refuse to join the US-run negotiations, their basis for support would collapse. They survive on donations essentially. Israel has…

— Noam Chomsky

Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political…

— Noam Chomsky

...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention…

— Noam Chomsky

[There is] is all part of the whole neoliberal shift in the economy. But the parties have shifted to the right.

— Noam Chomsky

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a…

— Noam Chomsky

A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which…

— Noam Chomsky

The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,…

— Noam Chomsky

What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the…

— Noam Chomsky

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his…

— Noam Chomsky

I was in Mexico City. It's a very pleasant city in many ways. It's vibrant, lively, pretty exciting society, but also depressing…

— Noam Chomsky

Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats…

— Noam Chomsky

“There's plenty of challenging, gratifying, interesting, productive workaround for people to do, and there are plenty of people who want to do…

— Noam Chomsky

“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be…

— Noam Chomsky

In our society, real power does not happen to lie in the political system, it lies in the private economy: that’s where…

— Noam Chomsky

Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and…

— Noam Chomsky

“The economic system barely functions as it is—I mean, the contemporary economic system is a complete catastrophe, an absolutely catastrophic failure. For…

— Noam Chomsky

“Well, it depends which planned economies you mean. There are lots of planned economies―the United States is a planned economy, for example.…

— Noam Chomsky

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization…

— Noam Chomsky

The military has a huge role in the economy [of Pakistan] with big stakes and, as you say, it has constantly intervened…

— Noam Chomsky

Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused…

— Noam Chomsky