Economics Quote by Umair Haque

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

— Jose Angel Gurria

“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

“Stitched together, they produce a cohesive and unsettling narrative of a generation that—in the many decades it has dominated political and corporate America—squandered its…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance…

— John Maynard Keynes

“No social legislation can ever be final. Economic conditions are in a constant state of fluctuation, and periods of tranquility are followed by renewed…

— Joseph Casper Husslein

“So why has this potentially self-destructive system of economic arrangements lasted? Probably because of habits of restraint, honesty and moderation which accompanied its emergence.”

— Tony Judt

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the…

— Noam Chomsky

“It’s all part of the life-cycle of an economy. First it’s lawless capitalism until that starts to impede growth. Next comes regulation, law enforcement,…

— Andy Weir

“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

“Through a web of laws, regulations, and informal rules, all of which are powerfully reinforced by social stigma, they are confined to the margins…

— Michelle Alexander

“It is an entirely false notion that the enormous fortunes of our day are an economic necessity, and that social legislation which would curb…

— Joseph Casper Husslein

It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving…

— Naomi Klein