Quotes About Economy

muy pocas de las personas de las cuales podrías esperar que lleven las riendas en el ámbito jurídico —políticos, socios senior de los bufetes, legisladores y estadistas, profesores de Derecho, magistrados de alto nivel, líderes de los cuerpos profesionales— están, en realidad, mirando más allá de los próximos años. En estos tiempos difíciles para la economía, el "aquí y ahora" parece estar proporcionando suficientes quebraderos de cabeza.

The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck

The sexual division of labor refers to women and men making different and complementary contributions to the household economy. Though the specific activities of each sex vary by culture, the gendered division of labor is a human universal. It is therefore assumed to have appeared well before modern humans started spreading across the globe sixty thousand to seventy thousand years ago.

With settlers starting farms in the West, the South rebuilding, and northern industry expanding, the economy would soon need all the available money supply.

Liberal" in the nineteenth-century United States and Europe designated people who in many, but not all, respects would be called conservatives in the twenty-first century. They embraced minimal government, a free market economy, individualism, and property rights; they attacked slavery, aristocracy, monarchy, standing armies, the Catholic Church, and hereditary authority.

The corporations failed, but very often the people behind them succeeded. The celebrated creative destruction of capitalism is, it seems, gentle with the rich.

When industrial work crippled and epidemic diseases killed, and where chance—freaks of fortune—produced what John Maynard Keynes, the economist, would later call "the radical uncertainties of capitalism," luck as much as effort seemed to dictate outcomes.

The absolute number of workers in agriculture continued to rise until the twentieth century, but agriculture's share of the national workforce fell. By 1900 it had declined to 40 percent, from a majority in 1860. Those workers, however, still produced more than the country could consume.11

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

Everything is selling. Nothing happens in this world, nothing comes into this world, until somebody makes a sale.

Just because the resources are there doesn't mean that they should be spent.

The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper.

Any BOOK Accepted as Cash!!!!

The Depression is over." In his December 2, 1930, message to Congress, he said that "the fundamental strength of the economy is unimpaired.

The record was one of economy in government, of prudence and frugality, of spending the people's money as carefully as if it had been his own, of having government do only what the people couldn't do for themselves. That last point was very important

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

The Third Wave can, and will, transcend this problem within industrialism. The Third Wave will be neither capitalist nor socialist, nor some milkwater blend of the two. It will demand a whole new economy, just as feudalism created an economy unknown to tribal humanity and industrialism created the two competing economies of capitalism and socialism, both unguessed and unpredictable from the perspective of the feudal stage.

People think that only the banks can create money. That's a hallucination. Aleister Crowley tells in his autobiography of a part of Mexico during the Revolution where there was no money available, so the people in the town just wrote on pieces of paper, "I owe you five pesos," or whatever. And they were using these pieces of paper while the town went right along and got more prosperous because they weren't paying interest every time they created money.

In the U.S. in the 1930s during the Great Depression there were over a thousand different private currencies in circulation until the Federal Reserve found out about it and had it stopped.

the subject is so important, and with such vast implications for society… The damage that psychopaths do to the global economy, and human civilization in general, is incalculable.

Geography, climate, population determine communications, economy, political organization.

From Zagreb to Rijeka now takes ninety minutes, to Senj two hours, and so forth. Because of the collapse of distance effected by civil engineering—to say nothing of the explosion of global tourism along the Dalmatian seaboard—Croatia has changed both economically and, to an extent, psychologically. Croatia has begun to move away from a more ethnically obsessed Balkan orientation in the direction of a more cosmopolitan Mediterranean one.

The answer is that the destiny of poor kids in America has broad implications for our economy, our democracy, and our values.

these costs total about $500 billion per year, or the equivalent of nearly 4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). More specifically, we estimate that childhood poverty each year: (1) reduces productivity and economic output by an amount equal to 1.3 percent of GDP, (2) raises the costs of crime by 1.3 percent of GDP, and (3) raises health expenditures and reduces the value of health by 1.2 percent of GDP.