Economics Quote by Michael Foot Download Open image “You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.” — Michael Foot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Mass Policy Unemployment Wages
Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages,… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain… — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as… — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering...I have always… — Michael Foot 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
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned… — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share Image
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
“a select group of high-performing companies have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap through better planning and execution. These companies—Barclays, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical,… — Michael C. Mankins Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
