Quotes About Economy

Es la declaración en quiebra de la economía "burguesa, expuesta ya de mano maestra, en su obra Apuntes de economía política según Stuart Mill por el gran erudito y crítico ruso N. Chernichevski.

Fixed and circulating capital are now no longer distinct and independent capital investments, but rather different portions of the same productive capital, which form different shares of the total value in different spheres of investment.

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.

La burguesía va aglutinando cada vez más los medios de producción, la propiedad y los habitantes del país.  Aglomera la población, centraliza los medios de producción y concentra en manos

Le travailleur tombe dans le paupérisme, et le paupérisme s'accroît plus rapidement encore que la population et la richesse

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed.

En nuestra sociedad los que trabajan no adquieren y los que adquieren no trabajan.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Political economy starts with the fact of private property; it does not explain it to us. It expresses in general, abstract formulas the material process through which private property actually passes, and these formulas it then takes for laws . It does not comprehend these laws — i.e., it does not demonstrate how they arise from the very nature of private property.

All commodities, as values, are realized human labours.

The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labour of men superseded by that of women.

Economists are the scientific representatives of the bourgeois class.

y, en términos generales, advertiréis, frente a un enorme aumento de valor no sólo de las mercancías, sino también en general de las operaciones en dinero, una tendencia a la disminución progresiva de los medios de pago.

La época de la burguesía se caracteriza y distingue de todas las demás por el constante y agitado desplazamiento de la producción, por la conmoción ininterrumpida de todas las relaciones sociales, por una inquietud y una dinámica incesantes.

capital collapses because it cannot exist alongside shared knowledge

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured an looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.

laborers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital.

In a sluggish economy, never, ever f*** with another man's livelihood.

Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for other jobs.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.