Attention Quote by Joan Robinson

Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments…

— Richard Ebeling

Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.

— Trish Regan

“Poverty, we have said elsewhere, was the primary cause of wealth. It was poverty that created the first capitalist; because, before accumulating "surplus value,"…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many…

— Jim Stanford

The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last generation, even…

— Henry Hazlitt

Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to…

— Henry Hazlitt

Countries with higher incomes on average achieve better human development. I do not believe that growth alone will 'cure' poverty. But I do believe…

— Hilary Benn

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.

— Joan Robinson

“Capitalism – which in its purest form is entrepreneurism even among the poorest of the poor – does work; but those who make money…

— Richard Branson

I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a…

— Richard Branson

“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities are still…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The peasants and workers of Europe (and eventually the inhabitants of the whole world) paid a huge price so that the capitalists could make…

— Walter Rodney