Quotes of: Economic-policy Keyword

From this failure to expunge the microeconomic foundations of neoclassical economics from post-Great Depression theory arose the "microfoundations of macroeconomics" debate, which ultimately led to a model in which the economy is viewed as a single u...

Adbusters #84 Pop Nihilism

The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone wants to have an opinion. Yet the kind of economics covered in the textbooks is a technical subject that many peo...

Paul Krugman

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

Michael Mandelbaum

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

Ridley Scott

Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.

Timothy McVeigh

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Bob McDonnell

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

Jim DeMint

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Brenda Holloway

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

Annie Lennox

Politicians have often declared that unbridled competition among financial intermediaries promotes failures that will harm the public. Although the evidence that competition does this is extremely weak, it has not stopped the state and federal govern...

The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages and long lines began months before the Arab oil embargo, right after price controls were imposed.

Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading a...

How to Be a Woman

Conscious evolution of the free enterprise system happens when we realize that neither the heavy handedness of government nor the greed of unregulated enterprise holds the answer to prosperity. It is the radical introspection of both sides leading to...

Memenomics: The Next Generation Economic System

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

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

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth InTough Economic Times

Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as a credible alternative and then as the majority view

Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea. And this is the age of the idea

Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. ...

Why We Run: A Natural History