Quotes About Economy

The Rhineland cities were developing the market economy that would eventually replace agrarian civilization; they were therefore in the very early stages of modernization, a transition that always strains social relations.

But most of the rest of us opt for economy of effort. After all, just about anything tastes good after a hard day of hiking! Start simple, and look to other hikers for ideas. Do not, however, stare into their food pot like a hungry puppy. Be forewarned. Hikers will share advice, stories, and more advice. They will help you set up your tent, get your balky stove to light, and untangle your bear-bagging rope. They will not, as a general rule, share their food.

big-box stores and outlet malls, and then you add e-sales on top of that—" Kat grimaced. "Small businesses get outpriced fast.

surrounded by snack and coffee shops that lived off the army of clerks.

He grinned. "It's cheaper than that

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

These labourers, who must sell themselves piece-meal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

The windmill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam mill, society with the industrial capitalist

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

The modern history of capital dates from the creation in the 16th century of a world-embracing commerce and a world-embracing market.

The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.

paran?n hareketi, yaln?zca metalar?n dola??m?n?n ifadesi olduÄŸu halde, tersine, metalar?n dola??m? yaln?zca paran?n hareketinin sonucuymuÅŸ gibi görünür.

But in fact, it is capitalistic accumulation itself that constantly produces, and produces in the direct ratio of its own energy and extent, a relativity redundant population of labourers, i.e., a population of greater extent than suffices for the average needs of the self-expansion of capital, and therefore a surplus-population.

If his capacity for labour remains unsold, the labourer derives no benefit from it, but rather he will feel it to be a cruel nature-imposed necessity that this capacity has cost for its production a definite amount of the means of subsistence and that it will continue to do so for its reproduction. He will then agree with Sismondi: "that capacity for labour ... is nothing unless it is sold.

all cases, therefore, the use-value of the labour-power is advanced to the capitalist: the labourer allows the buyer to consume it before he receives payment of the price; he everywhere gives credit to the capitalist. That this credit is no mere fiction, is shown not only by the occasional loss of wages on the bankruptcy of the capitalist,[181] but also by a series of more enduring consequences.

By destroying the non-capitalist milieu on which its expansion is based, capitalism undermines the conditions of its own growth.

No es la máquina la que trabaja, sino que se trabaja en ella, para restaurar su valor de uso.

because in the form of wages labour is bought with money, and this is taken as the characteristic feature of a 'money economy'.

It is easy to imagine a society which, having reached a certain level of consumption, consciously decides to give absolute priority to a single goal: reduction of the work load.

The formula for the circuit of capital: M-C...P...C'-M', is the self-evident form of the circuit of capital only on the basis of already developed capitalist production, because it presupposes the availability of the class of wage-labourers in sufficient numbers throughout society.

A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital.

Economy of time, to this all economy ultimately reduces itself.