Absence Quote by Janet Yellen

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

— Janet Yellen

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Do policy makers have the knowledge and ability to…

— Janet Yellen

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in…

— Tim Jackson

Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq,…

— Arundhati Roy

If we looked in the world of 1945 and looked at the map of capitalist economies and democratic polities, they were the rare exception,…

— Ashraf Ghani

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

— James Tobin

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes,…

— Ha-Joon Chang

While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

— Janet Yellen

“He did not foresee that in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent…

— Noam Chomsky

Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling…

— Murray Bookchin

A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for…

— Robin Morgan

“The justification of capitalism is not that the economy grows faster than it grows under any other system ... not that the goods pour…

— M. Northrup Buechner

“When it comes down to it, what are being traded in a capitalist economy are property rights—the ownership rights in goods and services.”

— Thomas J. DiLorenzo

What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things" (using the…

— Richard A. Falk

The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

— George Gilder