Economics Quote by Michelle Alexander

“Prohibitionism violates the fundamental law of market economy, which led to the emergence of a thriving shadow economy.”

— Jeffrey Dhywood

“People like rigid rules and prohibitions, you know. They make them for themselves and live in fear that, if they don't uphold the restrictions,…

— Project Itoh

“Artists and activists offend the sensibilities of the rule-bound when they interfere with people”s ability to accept things in the private realm as long…

— Martha Rosler

“I have called it a Great Splintering, not purely an economic phenomenon, but a social one: an era where social contracts are being torn…

— Umair Haque

“A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.”

— Paul Kriwaczek

“When significant numbers of people see their standards of living fall despite an ever-growing economic pie, it threatens the social contract of the economy…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

“People continue to deploy the same justification of market society—that it would secure the personal independence of workers from arbitrary authority—long after it failed…

— Elizabeth S. Anderson

“One of the primary barriers in this society to total freedom is economics. Suppressives have been weaving a web of economic entanglement for societies…

— L. Ron Hubbard

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody…

— Erich Fromm

“as social conditions change, so must the knowledge and practices designed to resist them”

— Patricia Hill Collins

The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits…

— Peter Thomas Bauer

“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.”

— Leo Tolstoy