Economy Quotes - Page 27

Capitalism is very far from a perfect system, but so far we have yet to find anything that clearly does a better job of meeting human needs than a regulated capitalist economy coupled with a welfare and health care system that meets the basic needs of those who do not thrive in the capitalist economy. If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist.

From 1947 to 2001, the American economy grew annually at a rate of 3.5 percent. After China got into the World Trade Organization, got access to our markets and flooded our markets with its illegally subsidized exports, we grew at a rate of 1.8 percent from 2002 to 2015. That's almost cut in half.

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.

The government businesses, they all operate in the Tasmanian economy and as the economy strengthens the demand for services in those areas strengthens.

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

Knowledge has become the key resource of the world economy.

Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales.

Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

This new economy that's just emerged has a new central economic actor. It's not the worker, the person who produces, nor the person who consumes, the purchaser. It's a new actor that does both things at the same time, call them a creator. They both create and consume in the same single act, and we're just beginning to see the shape of this new economy and it changes not just the economy itself, it's going to change the whole nature of the work relationship.

The behavior of the economy as a whole, at the aggregate, macro-level, is built up from the individual equations at the micro-level.

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

[There is] is all part of the whole neoliberal shift in the economy. But the parties have shifted to the right.

If Palestinian Authority refuse to join the US-run negotiations, their basis for support would collapse. They survive on donations essentially. Israel has made sure that it's not a productive economy.

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it.

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.

India is a 2 trillion dollar economy today. Can we not dream of an India with a 20 trillion dollar economy?

For an economy to prosper, trust between the states must be established, and their individual strengths be appreciated.

When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.