Quotes About Economy

What we need is much more flexibility for the labour markets.

In capitalist terms, art is a global marketplace and artistic labour is too.

Corbyn Labour's budget numbers simply don't add up on the NHS and the economy.

The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

He slices his head to the left in typical Barrons economy-of-motion fashion. He's the most self-contained man I've ever known. Not yet; we need to continue walking. But if she's in this mess, you've restored her.

This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

growth may lead to an increase in poverty.

In the half-century 1879–1929, Western societies developed into close-knit units, in which powerful disruptive strains were latent. The more immediate source of this development was the impaired self-regulation of market economy. Since society was made to conform to the needs of the market mechanism, imperfections in the functioning of that mechanism created cumulative strains in the body social. Impaired self-regulation was an effect of protectionism.

Robert Owen's was a true insight: market economy if left to evolve according to its own laws would create great and permanent evils.

The most recent global financial crisis reminded the current generation of the lessons that their grandparents had learned in the Great Depression: the self-regulating economy does not always work as well as its proponents would like us to believe.

one of the book's enduring contributions—its focus on the institutions that regulate the global economy—was directly linked to Polanyi's multiple exiles. His moves from Budapest to Vienna to England and then to the United States, combined with a deep sense of moral responsibility, made Polanyi a kind of world citizen.

the role of managing fictitious commodities places the state inside three of the most important markets; it becomes utterly impossible to sustain market liberalism's view that the state is "outside" of the economy.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

Here's the conundrum: No country has ever ended human deprivation without a growing economy. And no country has ever ended ecological degradation with one.

At this point in human history, the movement that best describes the progress we need is coming into dynamic balance by moving into the Doughnut's safe and just space, eliminating both its shortfall and overshoot at the same time.

We live now, says Daly, in 'Full World', with an economy that exceeds Earth's regenerative and absorptive capacity by over-harvesting sources such as fish and forests, and over-filling sinks such as the atmosphere and oceans.

over the past couple of centuries, just as Rostow spelled out, capitalist economies have restructured their laws, institutions, policies and values so that they are geared to expect, demand and depend upon continual GDP growth.

Peter Victor, can we 'go slower by design, not disaster'? Or even—in the name of agnosticism —what would it take to design an economy that can handle GDP growth without hankering after it, deal with it without depending upon it, embrace it without exacting it?

It is an economic era that has come to be known as the Great Acceleration, thanks to its extraordinary surge in human activity. Between 1950 and 2010, the global population almost trebled in size, and real World GDP increased sevenfold. Worldwide, freshwater use more than trebled, energy use increased fourfold, and fertiliser use rose over tenfold.