Quotes of: Economic-growth Keyword

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

William Kirby

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Booker T. Washington

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

Julia Gillard

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.

Carroll Quigley

Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

Ibrahim Babangida

'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.

Eric Fellner

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

Gary L. Francione

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

Jim Yong Kim

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

Arthur Henderson

In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

Natsuo Kirino

ECONOMICS IS HAUNTED by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, sa...

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit of this task the economist incurs the deadly enmity of all mountebanks and charlatans...

Economic Freedom and Interventionism

That's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology i...

Red Mars

When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart’s desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive natur...

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.

Chinese

The modern view seems to me to involve a false conception of growth. They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in faili...

Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.

Douglass North

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

Anita Roddick

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

J. B. Pritzker

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

James Tobin