Quotes About Economics

The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.

The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

Mexico has 44 treaties with other countries that make it very advantageous to do international shipping from Mexico rather than from the United States.

The Single Market is no-where defined in the E.U. treaties. If you suddenly ask people to define the Single Market, the number who can do that, who are specialists in the area, is pretty small.

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

Graham-Cassidy treats health care as a commodity that can be bought and sold.

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.

NAFTA, by itself, will not collapse. The possibility is that the United States leaves the treaty, but the treaty itself would keep regulating relations between Canada and Mexico.

Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.

Traditional economics is based on imaginary creatures sometimes referred to as 'Homo economicus.' I call them Econs for short. Econs are amazingly smart and are free of emotion, distraction or self-control problems. Think Mr. Spock from 'Star Trek.'

I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.

In a business that's driven purely by economics, the fact that one or two unique shows happen to get on and reach a public for a brief time doesn't constitute a trend.

Technology is just one of the factors affecting the world of work. Economics, demographics, sociological trends, and government policies are four other core influences reshaping labour markets and determining how we will work for years ahead.

An important factor influencing intergenerational mobility and trends in inequality over time is economic opportunity.

But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.

Wealth will always find their way out of societies where truth and honesty are not established into the societies where there are principles of honesty and truth.

Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty.

If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

All that the socialists understand about money is the fact that they want it from others.