Business Quote by Joan Robinson

One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class…

— Joan Robinson

“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that the lifeline…

— Ayn Rand

Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by…

— Murray Rothbard

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

— Thomas Pogge

Capitalism had arisen through the misuse and exaggeration of certain rights, notably the right of property - the basis of economic freedom - and…

— Hilaire Belloc

“By extending the idea of natural law to the economic sphere - an inevitable but fundamental error - they (18th century philosophes) both secularized…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

— Garet Garrett

“Neoclassical economics is precisely the theory one would expect a vastly complex system of international corporations, world markets, and interconnected currencies to create to…

— Roger M. Keesing

“It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement and freed…

— Ludwig von Mises

“The root of all evil, the liberal insists, was precisely this interference with the freedom of employment, trade and currencies practiced by the various…

— Karl Polanyi

“And so the catastrophe of 1929–33 did to the certainties of laissez-faire economics what science did to nineteenth-century religion and what the slaughter of…

— Thomas Frank

“Economics ought to be a magpie discipline, taking in philosophy, history and politics. But heterodox approaches have long since been banished from most faculties,…

— Aditya Chakrabortty