Economic Quotes - Page 6

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an armed force.

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.

When economic modernizations come in, say goodbye to wildlife.

One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources.

Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.