Approach Quote by Frances O'Grady

Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of…

— Barry Eichengreen

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

— Julian Barnes

Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of the 20th…

— Mark Skousen

If you look at how the US economy has suffered over the last 15 or 20 years, it's in significant part because we haven't…

— Jacob Hacker

The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why…

— Gary Locke

The idea that things should last just doesn't fit the economic model anymore.

— Johann Johannsson

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

— William O'Neill

This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands…

— John Podesta

Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological innovation destroyed…

— Chuka Umunna

“The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses that underpinned…

— Lucy Moore

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we…

— Gerard Arpey

“The world was already a miserable place in the spring of that cursed year. The New Depression was at its height. Stocks fell, jobs…

— E.E. Knight