The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
In today's world, learning has become the key to economic prosperity, social cohesion and personal fulfillment. We can no longer afford to educate the few to think, and the many to do.
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.
We won't get economic growth if we don't look after our mothers and the potential of the next generation. They need to be prioritised.
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.
There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.
Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.
Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.
Better educated or financially comfortable people often smile more than less educated or economically distressed people.
I'm a Ph.D. in economics, and so you analyze every situation uniquely because every international situation is unique.
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
