Asian-century Quote by Asher Judah

Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged.

— Nina Easton

“The downward pressure on the incomes of the West’s middle classes in the coming years will be relentless.”

— Edward Luce

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

— William Julius Wilson

While you can say that the problem of the middle class in the rich countries is too much globalization, the problem of the people…

— Branko Milanovic

“The rise of the global middle class will pave the way for a new golden age in Australian society.”

— Asher Judah

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to…

— George Orwell

When in one area of the world the standard of living and the size of the middle class increases, it is going to have…

— Christine Lagarde

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always…

— Susan George

“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive…

— Ellen Cushing

“Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of days revolution”

— Owen H Lewis

“The most immediate is that our middle class is too weak to support the consumer spending that has historically driven our economic growth.”

— David Cay Johnston

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye…

— Ana Kasparian