Economic Quotes - Page 16

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

I don't think you can spend yourself rich.

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.

Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.