Quotes About Economies

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.

'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

Great economies and great nations, prosperity, and abundance of nations and communities are created by men and not spirits.

Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

interaction of these few civilizations with one another, as much as with their own environments, has been among the most important drivers of historical change.10 The striking thing about these interactions is that authentic civilizations seem to remain true unto themselves for very long periods, despite outside influences. As Fernand Braudel put it: 'Civilization is in fact the longest story of all . . . A civilization . . . can persist through a series of economies or societies.

Today, banking assets (that is, loans) in the world's major economies are equivalent to around 150 per cent of those countries' combined GDP.

Y aunque no hubiera sido así, resulta dudoso que las inyecciones de capital del tipo imaginado por diversos economistas estadounidenses como Walt Rostow* fueran la solución a los problemas de la mayoría de las economías africanas, asiáticas y latinoamericanas. Una buena parte de la ayuda iba a parar a los países pobres, pero la mayor parte de ella se perdía o era robada.

Sobchak found Putin useful both because of his connections in the security services and for his understanding of foreign economies—a mix of old skills and new.

Intel decided to focus on memory chips, where mass production would produce economies of scale.

capitalism itself is a system and that as the environment that hosts capitalism changes—in particular, as the better part of global economic growth begins to occur outside the mature economies of the West—the capitalist system will evolve.

In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

Britain should not be held back by the E.U.'s protectionist stance which keeps so many developing countries from growing their economies.

Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA has the ability to more stringently regulate dust. If the EPA determines more stringent standards are necessary, family farmers and ranchers, as well as rural economies, would be devastated.

Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

In advanced economies, the average citizen is often resistant to the concept of alternative worlds because they value the in-person relationships, locations, and experiences already available to them, labeled as "reality privilege" by some observers.

Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world's people to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations.

Evolving a widely reused resource also requires coordination because changes must be compatible with all existing systems or users. Such coordination can slow down innovation... Some digital companies have even begun to explicitly favor duplication because their business environment rewards economies of speed.

But the generalized spillovers from innovation activities are not in practice measurable. Nor is the total amount of activity designed to improve production processes measurable. Investments in innovation occur in all economies. But unknown factors speed and retard this process across different epochs and different economies.

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.

If we are serious about Global Britain, we must recognise that international students bring huge benefits to our universities, our local economies and our soft power.

As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?