Quotes About Economics

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States.

We live in a capitalist society and if we're talking about the people at the bottom of the food chain, it's women of colour.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

I'm not much of an economic conservative, and I'm not conservative at all on foreign policy.

Foreigners will eventually own so much of America that there will be nothing left to trade.

I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham Forest. I did that to keep me stimulated.

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.

Obviously you can stash money under your mattress, cut down on hazelnut lattes, but in terms of the larger economic frame of our lives, we have very little agency. About one of the only things you can do is understand it.

There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

Franchise cricket is here to stay because of the money.

Frankly, if you can sell something at $80 a tonne that cost you $20 a tonne, you might want to sell as much as you can.

We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.

I'm a pro-growth, small-government conservative with a background in free enterprise.

You can't imagine a free market coupled with a dictatorship.

I'm a very free market guy.

I am a believer in free trade, fair free trade.

I think there's no such thing as free trade. I think there has to be fair trade.

Free trade was once a Republican conviction.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.