Economics Quote by Peter L. Bernstein

“slavery was an economic institution of the first importance. It had been the basis of Greek economy and had built up the Roman Empire.…

— Eric Williams

“The army that I wish to raise from the wealth that we’ve acquired is to fight the Macedonian intrusions, as well as to create…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“He who spends all his time amassing wealth is a slave to it.”

— Chrétien de Troyes

“Southern slave economy, sharecroppers after that, coal miners after that, and machinists and millworkers during more recent times.”

— J.D. Vance

“Elizabeth [Alexander] is right, of course. It’s a stirring fact that our slave ancestors left behind not documents of property but an incredible amount…

— Anonymous

“When the industrial colonialists and the politicians agree to sacrifice a region to a single economic goal, they inevitably sacrifice the people as well.”

— Wendell Berry

“While in England the profits of the slave trade helped to enrich those who opposed absolutism, in Africa they helped to create and strengthen…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have…

— Anonymous

“The most damning and hypocritical critiques of his allegedly aristocratic economic system emanated from the most aristocratic southern slaveholders, who deflected attention from their…

— Ron Chernow

“Give a slave slaves, and he will support slavery.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the…

— Walter Isaacson

“The plight of the dispossessed citizens might not have been so dire had they been allowed to transition into the labor force of the…

— Mike Duncan