Economic growth Quote by Claire Fox

Workers' disillusionment is deepened by the knowledge that, as their average wages grow slowly or stagnate, the very wealthy are growing significantly wealthier.

— Guy Ryder

“From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were all becoming less unequal. Thanks to progressive taxation, government…

— Tony Judt

“The West’s median income, meanwhile, has barely shifted in the last half-century.”

— Edward Luce

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is…

— Richard Gere

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have…

— Richard Layard, Baron Layard

East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share…

— Anthony Lewis

Prosperity often presages adversity.

— Hosea Ballou

Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places…

— Victor Davis Hanson

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is…

— Wallace Stegner

There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well…

— Jeremy Seabrook

“Modernity, in contrast, is based on the firm belief that economic growth is not only possible, but absolutely essential... Modernity has turned 'more stuff'…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S. in the…

— Lester Thurow