Economics Quote by Arthur Laffer Download Open image “The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.” — Arthur Laffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Economy Effects Income Zero
The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
In macroeconomic theory, there is this argument that what the Fed does has no effect on unemployment, no effect on investment, no effect on… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
It is an established scientific fact that monetary policy has had virtually no effect on output and employment in the U.S. since the formation… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
Taxes can set the level of activity around which the economy fluctuates, but they have very little effect on the fluctuations themselves. — Kevin Hassett Copy Share Image
There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The primary value of a basic income would be its emancipatory effect. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned… — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share Image
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
“a select group of high-performing companies have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap through better planning and execution. These companies—Barclays, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical,… — Michael C. Mankins Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
