Quotes About Economic

The Black Death, or plague, had wreaked havoc in the middle decades of the fourteenth century. Economic depression followed the decline of population, abandonment of fertile land, and curtailing of trade. But by the mid-fifteenth century, economic expansion was once again the order of the day.

Rather, it is that Europe's economic recovery created new centers of financial power, new situations for potential friction, and new opportunities for fiscal resentment.

In general, the deployment of austerity as economic policy has been as effective in bringing us peace, prosperity, and crucially, a sustained reduction of debt, as the Mongol Golden Horde was in furthering the development of Olympic dressage.

It was quite obvious that neighborhoods and communities would be destroyed and people uprooted, but this was thought to be an acceptable cost of creating new transportation routes and facilitating urban economic development.

First, perhaps most obviously, massive punitive force serves economic elite groups by rendering invisible the wreckage of capitalist modes of exploitation, moving aside what elites view as "social junk.

Even when our carceral state locks away the truly violent offender, it is thereby hiding the social, political, and economic structural forces that are the genesis of such violence. Locking up the violent offender is a way to focus attention away from elites' structural responsibility for generating the conditions of violence.

Nullifying or "neutralizing" the work and effects of such dissidents and organizers of alternative social structures is a third way that carceral state terror protects a system of economic disparity.

A key to understanding why Lockdown America rises today is to consider our present system of punishment, particularly U.S. mass incarceration and police repression, as related to the production of economic wealth in the recent history of the United States.

In short, for supplying and controlling both natural resources (oil) essential for U.S. economic life, and also for nurturing U.S. group identity, the deaths of the poor are necessary. They are sacrifices that power the U.S.-led imperium.

It is ironic but nonetheless true that for developing countries the best way to protect against the future effects of climate change is currently to burn more fossil fuels and thereby accelerate their economic development.

By the 1990s the UK was the most unequal society in the Western world, with around fourteen million living in poverty, including over four million children, but other west European countries were heading in the same direction.

The Statist, however, misuses equality to pursue uniform economic and social outcomes.

Let us remember, for the progressive, historical progress is said to be a process of never-ending cultural and societal adjustments intended to address the unique circumstances of the time, the ultimate goal of which is economic egalitarianism and the material liberation of "the masses.

They self-righteously advocate public policies that obligate future generations' labor and resources to their own real and perceived benefit, empowering governmental abuse via social engineering and economic depredation. They disguise the delinquency as compassionate and premised on good intentions, often insisting their objectives will improve the prospects of those most severely burdened by them—"the children.

Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: "First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package."

Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved

The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.