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Similarly, payments for a dead soldier amount to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a death. This statistical value of a life in the US amounts to circa $6.5 million.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.

The aim of academic trade theory is to tell students, "Look at the model, not at how nations actually develop." So of all the branches of economic theory, trade theory is the most wrongheaded.

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us.

Taxing Women is a must-have primer for any woman who wants to understand how our current tax system affects her family's economic condition. In plain English, McCaffery explains how the tax code stacks the deck against women and why it's in women's economic interest to lead the next great tax rebellion.

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.

Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.

The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.

The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.

The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

The center of our economic revival we'll be fixing our really horrendous, one-way street, horrible trade deals.

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

The Democrats, the longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

The economic base of that rural Oregon area used to be manufacturing and logging. And that went away and they feel nobody has been speaking to them and finally Donald Trump has spoken to them.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

The economic part is the one that came out first because there were some problems about which the press spoke a lot.

The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs.

The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books.

The economic sanctions are absolutely going to hurt Russia's economy. They're hurting some of his key inner sanctum. But they are not affecting his political standing. And it's hard to see how they would do so at least, in the short term.

The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.

The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.

The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.

The first freedom is to be in possession of yourself - to own yourself, to not be subject to the will of somebody else. In a capitalist society, that means having a certain economic wherewithal so that you can do what you wish to do without having to ask permission.

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.

The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically free society unless the major part of its economic resources are operated under a capitalistic private enterprise system.