If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985. — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers,… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we… — Douglas R. Oberhelman Copy Share Image
I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number… — Mark Kirk Copy Share Image
Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that… — John Hutton Copy Share Image
Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Our gross domestic product, or GDP, is barely above 1 percent. And going down. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2%… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage. — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things. — Pearl White Copy Share Image
India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.' — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
“I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You know that Estonia, based largely on how successful Skype was, built by Estonian developers, that was a tenth of the entire… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. — Neil Abercrombie Copy Share Image
You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves. — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care,… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
