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The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism

the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of capitalist development.

The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

The key to economic security - to food security in Africa is empowering the women.

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.

The members - mentally handicapped people who are marginal in society and not useful in an economic sense - welcomed me into their lives. And I was loved, not because of what s doing but because of who I was.

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

The natural economic, humanitarian and social integration, do not require any armed forces.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

The most common conception of Capitalism is that it is an economic system consisting of privately owned businesses and large corporations that are run for profit. The profit comes from running the business efficiently and keeping the products and services up to date and competitively priced.

The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be made to measure for those structures. The most important thing is not to lose sight of personal relationships - i.e., the relationships between man and his co-workers, between subordinates and their superiors, between man and his work, between this work and its consequences.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

The normal economic system works itself.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.

The parastatals are an important driver of the process of Black Economic Empowerment and they have been doing it, and will continue to do it.

The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.

The personal is not just political. It is also economic.

The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation.

The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.

The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices.

The problem right now, which I've been pointing out very bluntly to American officials in Washington, is that the U.S. has no economic presence in Afghanistan. The Afghans can't point and say, "Oh, the Americans built that road. They built that telecommunications facility. They built that electricity powerhouse," because nothing has been built so far.

The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.

The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.

The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

There are many ways to create economic suicide on a national level. The major way through history has been through indebting the economy. Debt always expands to reach a point where it cannot be paid by a large swathe of the economy. This is the point where austerity is imposed and ownership of wealth polarizes between the One Percent and the 99 Percent.

There are all sorts of shades of gray when you're working on economic policy and tax policy and health care policy. There's no gray on this issue, to me. This is a gun lobby that is raging out of control, that doesn't even represent its own members.

The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis.

There are two economic realities in America in 2016. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation. However, income inequality remains significant, and nearly half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

There cannot be prosperity without security.

There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.