Quotes About Economics

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

Some bemoan the brutalism of socialist architecture, but was the blandness of capitalist architecture any better?

The average American, or European, who feels that refugees or immigrants threaten their jobs does not recognize that the real culprits for their economic plight are the corporate interests and individuals that want to take the profits and are perfectly happy to see the struggling pitted against each other.

Hello my little sunny it is money that begets money.

El capitalismo es una religión igualitarista, puesto que nos somete a todos y nos lleva a todos a sentirnos atrapados, como lo están todas las mujeres.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay

Thus, the twentieth century marks the turning-point from the old capitalism to the new, from the domination of capital in general to the domination of finance capital.

The more democratic the system of government is, the clearer it will be to the workers that the root of the evil is not the lack of rights, but capitalism.

Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

During the last fifteen to twenty years, especially since the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), the economic and also the political literature of the two hemispheres has more and more often adopted the term "imperialism" in order to describe the present era. In 1902, a book by the English economist J. A. Hobson, Imperialism, was published in London and New York. This

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

As to the essence of Commerce and Manufacture, it is this: to establish bonds between every corner of the earth's surface and every other corner, to multiply the needs of mankind, and the desire for material possession and enjoyment.

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?