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Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

Globalization is a fact of economic life

Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case.

Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk.

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

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?

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.

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

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

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.

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

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

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

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 am not confident that Europe can make it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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 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

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 know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.

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

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.

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

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.