Economic Quotes - Page 11

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,.

A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.

Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of "capital." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship to each other is that of form to content.

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.

Trickle down economics creates a nation of peons.

The single biggest issue that I'm very sensitive to is inflation. I'm very concerned that this extended period where the interest rates were quite low and stimulated a lot of activity could breed inflation and create a problem for us.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.