Action Quote by Herbert Hoover

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions…

— Ayn Rand

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not…

— Upton Sinclair

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

— Andrew Weil

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics…

— Hazel Henderson

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

— Paul Krugman

“In short, and this is a highly important point to grasp, the depression is the “recovery” process, and the end of the depression heralds…

— Murray N. Rothbard

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

— Nathaniel Branden

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

— Robert Heilbroner

“Depression is a physical illness, like bleeding from a wound that won’t close. You cannot fix it, it doesn’t heal.”

— Gaia B. Amman

If we are to depression-proof our economy we may need to pay more attention to the radical ideas and policies of those who witnessed…

— John McDonnell

Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“The economic system barely functions as it is—I mean, the contemporary economic system is a complete catastrophe, an absolutely catastrophic failure. For instance, the…

— Noam Chomsky