Quotes About Economics

You can't build an engine that's just good for one type of game anymore. The economics don't work.

I do not like government-sponsored enterprises.

Weirdly enough, I'm a macroeconomics enthusiast.

Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.

La science sociale di XIXe siecle nous a legue un terrible heritage, l'idee que els processus se divisent en trois champs separes: le politique, l'economique et le socioculturel.

Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.

There are two ways to make money in a capitalist, patriarchal setting: 1. Fuck other people over faster and more efficiently than they fuck you over. 2. Whore

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

The three pillars of modern conservatism are religion, nationalism, and economic growth.

We in our secular, rationalist world are utterly unprepared for such existential-spiritual spasms. For one thing, we do not study the history of religion in any serious way, even for explanations of religious phenomena. Instead, we look for sociological explanations, or economic explanations, or even political explanations, and we do so precisely because we find it almost impossible to posit spiritual appetites and spiritual passions as independent, primary forces in human history.

A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!

Americans will not tolerate wars that can't be explained in simple terms of economics or the White man's destiny.

Since the capital system cannot set limits to itself, also, it cannot differentiate between the growth of a child and the growth of a cancer.

Our market-intensive societies measure material progress by the increase in the volume and variety of commodities produced. And taking our cue from this sector, we measure social progress by the distribution of access to these commodities. Economics has been developed as propaganda for the takeover by large-scale commodity producers.

The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place

I know of no industrial society where women are the economic equals of men. Of everything that economics measures, women get less.

We have reinforced this limited choice by putting socialism in our left hand and capitalism in our right hand, leaving no other hands. The

whether or not it is economically rational to aggressively respond to climate change depends on the discount rate, which in turn depends on answering questions that standard economic theory is not prepared to address.

Das Kapital

The goods produced by labour above what is necessary for survival Marx called the "Surplus Value".

Contrary to the popular view, Marx did not predict the formation of communist countries, with which he is so closely identified. Rather, he predicted that capitalism would be utterly successful on a number of fronts.

Under these conditions the middle class is destined to disappear, and become part of the proletariat. Capital will be increasingly concentrated in fewer hands of extremely rich capitalists, while the rest will grow increasingly poor.

the British colonies in the West Indies and North America that had helped bankroll this development relied heavily on slave labour to run their sugar and cotton plantations. It is now believed that around 20 million people were taken from their homes in Africa to work as slaves on plantations in British colonies and in the newly independent USA. Over half died on the journey.

The Dutch East India Company, formed in 1602, was one of the first multi-national companies.