Economic Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daron Acemoglu
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Monbiot
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Even if we were to sign peace today, the economic conditions in our country would not improve automatically because it will take some time to reach the level of oil production before the war and the oil prices are likely to remain low for some time as the supply of oil in the world is high and demand is low.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Salva Kiir Mayardit
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lester B. Pearson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sheldon Harnick
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nancy Birdsall
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Idries Shah
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the 90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vivek Wadhwa
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen foresee what time is thus bringing, and try to shape institutions and mold men's thoughts and purposes in accordance with the change that is silently coming on. The unwise are those who bring nothing constructive to the process, and who greatly imperil the future of mankind by leaving great questions to be fought out between ignorant change on one hand and ignorant opposition to change on the other.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Stuart Mill
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lester B. Pearson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michael K. Powell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alison Lurie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leonardo DiCaprio
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Since your time is your main involvement here - I mean, the clay doesn't cost very much. Even the glaze and the firing doesn't cost a great deal. But your time is the cost, and if you can keep your time to a minimum and still come out with the results you want, that means the pots can be sold for an economic price.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Warren MacKenzie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Without Russia's contribution, prices would rise even more. Some members of the EU meet 90% of their demands for gas with the help of Russian hydrocarbons and have no complaints so far. Everybody is happy. Russia is a reliable partner and has never failed her partners in Europe, even in the hardest times of its economic development.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vladimir Putin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you look at Washington, it's really not that big. And its economy is completely dependent on those two companies. When they're doing well, the whole state does all right, but when they're down, there's nothing to fall back on.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Davis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mikhail Bakunin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				W. Allen Wallis