Best 694 quotes in «economic quotes» category

There's so much going on in the healthcare system that makes it difficult for women to really have a strong economic hold if insurance is always an issue.

There's this whole problem of trafficking, which has gotten worse in the economic downturn, which disproportionately affects young women, but also affects some young men who are sold into bondage, into basically servitude for indebted work that they can often never escape from.

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all of the economists of my generation - Nicky Kaldor , Thomas Balogh, L. K. Jah, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the list could be indefinitely extended. The urge to participate (and correct Hayek) was ruthlessly competitive.

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side

The study of economic organization commonly proceeds as though market and administrative modes of organization were disjunct. Market organi­zation is the province of economists. Inter­nal organization is the concern of organization theory specialist. And never the twain shall meet.

The successful human being is adaptable. We have to adapt to changes in weather. We have to adapt to changes in climate. We have to adapt to changing economic circumstances. People that don't have the flexibility to adapt or who are afraid of change or who oppose it are going to be left behind.

The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

The United States is the nation of innovation. And we have the best innovators, really, in the world. Our international property is one of our huge national economic assets. Yes, so to the extent that some are seeking to infiltrate our network, steal that information, not to have invest in the research and development that goes into innovation, that's a really big deal.

The upshot of Mr. Trump's economic policy positions under almost any scenario is that the U.S. economy will be more isolated and diminished.

The US needs military/defense, economic, and social strategies. A medium-sized business, by contrast, is normally best off focusing its efforts on a single crucial objective.

Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

They call me Freestyle Freddy and I'm always ready to rap. Even when I wake up from a nap. Economic devastation's kinda sweeping the nation. It's time for us to wake up and get an education.

This economic pie that is getting ready to explode before our eyes is going to be shared equally.

This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.

Today's national income statistics make it appear that Goldman Sachs is productive. As if Donald Trump plays a productive role. The aim is to make it appear that people who take money from the rest of the economy without working are productive, despite not really providing any service that actually contributes to GDP and economic growth.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

To have to introduce a new product at the worst economic time in the last 50 years probably wasn't the greatest thing to have happened.

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

They sort of see Hillary Clinton as the status quo, more of the same, which is why the market is expected to rally should she become president. Donald Trump is more of the unknown. We could see an initial sell-off. Longer-term or midterm, their economic plans are very different.

Thievery is what unregulated capitalism is all about.

This aged economic system is out of date!

Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.

To me, the economic war with China is everything. And we have to be maniacally focused on that. If we continue to lose it, we're five years away, I think, ten years at the most, of hitting an inflection point from which we'll never be able to recover.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.

Tunisia is extremely dependent on economic conditions in Europe, which is why it also experienced shockwaves from the euro crisis.

Ultimately, we didn't go to Germany to create a democracy. We went to overthrow Adolf Hitler. But once a democracy was there, Germany was a much bigger supporter of and help to our national interests, both economic and security than had ever been before.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.

U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.

UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.

Vladimir Putin will be up for reelection, and he has shifted his whole political strategy inside of Russia from one where he promised the Russians pretty much a chicken in every pot, a better economic way of life.