Quotes of: Economic Keyword

Have you heard the joke about the chemist, physicist and economist who get wrecked on a desert isle, with a huge supply of canned baked beans as their only food? The chemist says that he can start a fire using the neighbouring palm trees, and calcula...

Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

Is precisely in market dealings that market prices are formed for all kinds of goods and services, which will be taken as the bases of calculation. Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no...

Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth

There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash val...

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

The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberalism as espoused by, for instance, Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer. According to them, antagonistic interests do not exist between capitalists, as own...

The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy

For every 100 women who earn a bachelors degree, 75 men do so. For every 100 American women who earn a Masters degree, 66 American men do so. For every 100 females, ages 20 to 24, who commit suicide, 624 males do so. For every 100 women, ages 18 to 2...

From Family Collapse to America's Decline: The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation

An economy that depends on slavery needs to promote images of slaves that “justify” the institution of slavery. The contemporary economy depends right now on the representation of women within the beauty myth. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith off...

The Beauty Myth

the parts of the brain corresponding to the limbic system (thought to respond only to more visceral, immediate rewards) were activated only when the decision involved comparing a reward today with one in the future. In contrast, the lateral prefronta...

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

Jeff Goodell

That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.

Lloyd Kaufman

Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.

Tortilla Flat

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

Orrin Woodward

transformation begins with the individual” Dr William Edwards Deming The New Economics - 1993

Priyavrat Thareja

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.

Queen Mary

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

Robert Duvall

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

Timothy Noah

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

John Yarmuth

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

Lawrence Summers

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

Rick Perry

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

Nestor Kirchner

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

Jacqueline Novogratz