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Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.

Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.

Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

I am convinced that God Himself is tampering with the economic system of the world to reduce us back to Him.

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

I am not confident that Europe can make it.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space?

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.

I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons or through slavery or some other form of compulsion.

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.

I don't worry about new home sales

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified in governing economic enterprises is to imply that it is not justified in governing the state.

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations between individuals, become increasingly relations between whole nations organized as trading bodies, they inevitably become the source of friction and envy between whole nations.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

If the world economy is divided into isolated economic blocs of this kind, it will be rather difficult to achieve the same interpretation and application of international rules of economic activity and world trade.