Economic Quotes
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The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The world will eventually leave the age of oil, but there is no geologic reason for this to happen until near the end of the 21st century.
David Deming
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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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Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that there are three mythic solutions to poverty eradication: donations, national economic growth, and big businesses. Instead, he advocates helping the poor earn money through their own efforts of developing low-cost tools that are effective and profitable.
Amy Lockwood
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Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.
William Greider
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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.
Milton Friedman
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Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.
Bill Clinton
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If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
Charles Handy
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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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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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Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.
Chalmers Johnson
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The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
William C. Kirby
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It is no secret that the current economic climate is affecting our business, ... It is now clear that we must go beyond belt-tightening and take the additional step of reducing the size of our work force.
Bob Wright
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I think we very well may take it public again in 2007. We're going to make sure we explore every nook and cranny of America's economic landscape.
John Holt
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Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
William Feather
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New technologies, innovative management, higher productivity, displacements in the labour market, increased migration - these are all provoking major economic, social, and political shifts. These shifts need to be better understood if we are to address them in a positive and effective manner.
Roberto Azevedo
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When people listen to people like me, those of us who have a platform, we have to say things that speak truth. We have to empower, inspire, build, and launch the next generation of world solutions that will positively contribute to our economic, political and social fabric and - hopefully - improve the entire nation and the world.
Farrah Gray
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I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.
Angela Davis
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If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.
William Weld
