Capitalism Quote by Joan Robinson Download Open image “The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.” — Joan Robinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalism Economics Inspirational Love
Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite — Eastern Europe Proverb Copy Share Image
It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse. — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy.… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives,… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire,… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“After the war, when the problem of deficient effective demand seemed to have faded into the background, a fresh question came to the fore… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it. — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.” — David L. Weimer Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image