If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut… — Sumner Slichter Copy Share Image
You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in… — Michael Harrington Copy Share Image
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
In fact, for the majority of the population, wages and incomes have stagnated and conditions have gotten worse. So they are asking,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a… — Peter J. McGuire Copy Share Image
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
[I'm planning]for starters, build a permanent border wall between the US and Mexico that Mexico "must pay for". The plan proposes various… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage,… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I am in favor of high wages and agree that the higher the wages, the stronger the evidence of prosperity, provided (and… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image