Currents Quote by Molly Ivins

Globalization is a fact of economic life

— Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world…

— Peter Mandelson

By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.'…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

“the growth of the modern economy might turn out to be a colossal fraud.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

— Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose…

— Nigel Lawson

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

— Paul Krugman

“Consequently, even many critics of economic inequality are hesitant to endorse the claim that inequality undermines growth. Paul Krugman, for instance, says that he…

— Don Watkins

“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.”

— Tim Jackson

Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is…

— Jerry Pournelle

Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

— Pascal Lamy