Choices Quote by Mario Bunge

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity…

— Claudio Hummes

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

— Terence McKenna

One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more…

— Os Guinness

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about…

— Thomas Piketty

The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as…

— Donella Meadows

Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding…

— Mark Blaug

Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common…

— Martin Sheen

“there is a global rejection of society as it presently exists together with acceptance of the mechanisms that produce that society. De facto inequalities…

— Pierre Rosanvallon

In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent…

— Duane Elgin

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

— Shakti Gawain

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy…

— Noreena Hertz

“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often…

— Thomas Piketty