Capitalism Quote by Paul Krugman

Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of the 20th…

— Mark Skousen

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

— Ben Shapiro

“Keynes declared capitalism the best system ever devised to achieve a civilized economic society. But he recognized in it two major faults—“its failure to…

— Robert B. Reich

“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was to stick…

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power.…

— Gunter Grass

The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what should be…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a…

— Milton Friedman

Capitalism can be alright, I mean Karl Marx didn't live to see what Roosevelt did with that Depression. He pulled everybody out of that…

— David Bowie

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

— Howard Warren Buffett

“...capitalism is too important and complex a subject to be left to economists. Achieving a critical comprehension of it requires perspectives beyond those characteristic…

— Jerry Z. Muller

Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A…

— Joan Robinson

In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith