Economics Quote by Wayne Visser

Capitalism is in crisis both morally, due to widening disparities of income and wealth and disclosures of abusive practices, and ecologically, due to its…

— Richard A. Falk

There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so.

— Thomas Piketty

“In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At the same…

— Dalai Lama XIV

People are very focused on value and preservation of capital. They're a lot less risk-prone than they used to be.

— Sergio Marchionne

“The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true…

— Tony Judt

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

— Bill Gates

This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to…

— Tariq Ali

“In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn’t unite;…

— Katherine Boo

“With the recent demise of totalitarian communisms, and new rise of capital’sglobal reach and power, it has become fashionable to explain away today’s gross…

— Kent Welton

“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a system will…

— Suzy Kassem

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

— Vandana Shiva

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel…

— Kshama Sawant