Quotes About Economics

En fait, la doctrine du ciel n'est pas figée. C'est vrai qu'ils ont eu des penchants égalitaristes. Mais tout a changé avec l'arrivée de Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, et quantité d'apôtres de la déréglementation qui ont commencé à faire leur propagande ici même. - Vous voulez dire qu'aujourd'hui... - Je veux dire qu'aujourd'hui, sous leur influence, le ciel est devenu carrément néo-libéral.

Tout est en un (Abraham) Tout est amour (Jésus-Christ) Tout est économique (Karl Marx) Tout est sexuel (Sigmund Freud) Tout est relatif (Albert Einstein) Et ensuite ?

Let's be clear. The debate over health care in this country is not a debate about medical treatment or the best way to prevent disease. It is a debate about economics and class politics. Either we maintain a profit-driven health care system whose main function is to enrich certain individuals and institutions, or we develop a nonprofit, cost-effective system that provides quality health care for all people as a right of citizenship.

52 percent of all new income generated is going to the top 1 percent.

The wealthiest 400 Americans now earn, on average, $345 million a year, and they pay an effective tax rate of 16.6 percent.

During this first term [as Burlington mayor in 1981] I discovered that the city was wasting substantial sums of money on its insurance policies. Companies, year after year, were getting the city's business at substantially higher than market rates. I instituted a radical socialist concept, 'competitive' bidding, which saved the city tens of thousands of dollars.

we never get around to discussing the reality that, after adjusting for inflation, the average worker in America is making $44 a week less today than she made fifty years ago.

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.

There is no real freedom without economic justice.

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

But if the little man gets paid even less than he is now, How will he ever afford our vegetables?

There are two kinds of companies: those that try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.

LABOR, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

War is always more complex. Economics, history, religion all have a role, but not for the ones dodging the bullets. They just get blown around like seeds in the wind until the city folk with calculators and Swiss bank accounts stop talking rot from a bunker under a mountain.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

It's all about money, not freedom, y'all, okay? Nothing to do with fuckin' freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without fucking money, okay?

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11 000 a year?

The Brewers, feeling the crush of small-market economics and fearing injury problems, decided they couldn't afford to keep Molitor, whom Bando regrettably referred to at one point as "just a DH." Toronto swept in with a three-year, $13 million offer. "If Paul Molitor leaving the Brewers doesn't show that the small markets are in trouble, nothing does," Jim Gantner told the Milwaukee Sentinel at the time.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college.

It is my conviction that becoming economically and socially vulnerable puts you at the mercy of people surrounding you. It is as if you no longer exist as a human being and are no longer worthy of respect.