Economics Quote by David Korten Download Open image “So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.” — David Korten ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Economy Enormous Global economy Instability Loser Winner Winner and loser Winners And Losers
As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability. — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
One growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to… — William Weld Copy Share Image
Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Growth thus moves forward only if not blocked by the economic losers who anticipate that their economic privileges will be lost and by the… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Our long-term prosperity depends critically on the ability of world leaders to make politically difficult decisions at a time when the global economy is… — Charles Dallara Copy Share Image
The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies. — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest. — David Korten Copy Share Image
To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes… — David Korten Copy Share Image
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. — David Korten Copy Share Image
The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or… — David Korten Copy Share Image
But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and… — David Korten Copy Share Image
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both. — David Korten Copy Share Image
There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able… — David Korten Copy Share Image
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. — David Korten Copy Share Image
I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own… — David Korten Copy Share Image
There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power… — David Korten 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 from the '30s, it is a lesson we learned post-World War II, and it plays to our strengths. — Charles Boustany Copy Share
“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 standard of living and level of awareness of life’s pleasures and luxuries available to the educated and new middle classes, in all countries liberated from the “intelligent design” of totalitarian or semi-totalitarian governments that purported to… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality of the categories and concepts employed by that science, is, in fact, the paradoxical product of a long collective history, endlessly reproduced in individual histories, which can be fully accounted for only by historical analysis: it… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share
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 artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own… — Karl Marx Copy Share