Economic Quote by James Surowiecki

“A system based on exchanging products inevitably channels wealth to a few, and no governmental change will ever be able to correct that. It…

— Daniel Quinn

Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

— Shoshana Zuboff

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

— Anonymous

If, as consumers, we can change our mindset so that we see gnarled, twisted, lumpy or otherwise imperfect produce as beautiful, we can create…

— Dana Cowin

Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material well-being for…

— Douglas Massey

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately,…

— Lewis Mumford

“a product can decrease in perceived value if it starts off as scarce and becomes abundant.”

— Nir Eyal

“Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.”

— Ivan Illich

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

— Seth Godin

You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the…

— William Stanley Jevons

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

— Alexander Hamilton

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of…

— Marvin Harris