Quotes of: World-economy Keyword

Because we believe that you got to build the economy from middle out and not from the top down.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

Jamais Cascio

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

Tom Vilsack

On a regular basis, I conduct work in the Amazon, establishing trade for medicinal plants, and working with small communities to improve their economies and to help protect forest acreage.

Chris Kilham

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

Marcy Kaptur

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

Mike Pence

The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized.

Robert Reich

If giving tax breaks to millionaires created jobs or grew our economy, I would be in favor of them, but they are the same failed policies of the past that just don't work.

Tim Walz

Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.

Michael Kors

According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.

John Doolittle

Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred currency is dollars, though euros are also acceptable.

Luke Harding

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

Rush Limbaugh

'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

Steven Pinker

[Walmart]s largest innovation consists in getting rid of the central Fordist principle of paying the workers enough so that they can afford to buy what they manufacture. Instead, WalMart has pioneered the inverse principle: paying the workers so litt...

Steven Shaviro

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy

A brick could help me hold down a job. Hey, in an economy as bad as this, every little bit helps.  

Brick and Blanket

[...] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the physical environment [...].

On Anarchism

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Managing Oneself

Like ice, this economy is more fluid than ever. Thanks, Washington, DC!

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Our moral economy went bankrupt long before our financial one.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.

Adam Davidson