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Quotes About Economic

For the individual, it inflicted severe damage to the ancient primary identity with a multigenerational family and clan and commenced a profound psychological slide toward atomization that would permit the herding of the population for a quarter century after 1949 into social and economic experiments, some of which proved stupendously destructive.
~ Richard Frank
The truth is that modern inequality exists because democracy is excluded from the economic sphere. It needs therefore to be dealt with by an extension of democracy into the workplace. We need to experiment with every form of economic democracy – employee ownership, producer and consumer co-operatives, employee representatives on company boards and so on.
~ Richard G. Wilkinson
It is time to stop making excuses. We need an enriched approach to doing economic research, one that acknowledges the existence and relevance of Humans.
~ Richard H. Thaler
See Fineman (2004), 123: "We should transfer the social and economic subsidies and privilege that marriage now receives to a new family core connection—that of the caretaker-dependent.
~ Richard H. Thaler
I began to have deviant thoughts about economic theory while I was a graduate student
~ Richard H. Thaler
These conditions reflected the failures of modern civilization—the death of genuine spiritual values and traditions, the harsh ness of economic greed and exploitation, the avarice for glittering material goods that, in a culture of consumerism, ultimately possessed the possessor.
~ Richard Wright
And the weakness of our policy is that every time we impose economic sanctions, to punish the Japanese for their aggression, it only reinforces their feeling that they've got to be self-sufficient.
~ Ken Follett
China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .
~ Bernard Arnault
All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.
~ Edward Snowden
No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind
~ Willis Harman
What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.
~ Sylvia Thompson
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
~ Lincoln Chafee
The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.
~ Charles A. Reich
The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.
~ Dan Quayle
I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.
~ William J. Clinton
Our world faces incredible economic uncertainty. The notion of what is a super power has evolved, and who actually can carry what muscle has changed.
~ Lorenzo di Bonaventura
You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.
~ Mark Z. Jacobson
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.
~ Noam Chomsky
Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.
~ Robert Kagan
It is a major world power, and today it is an economic and military leader - no doubt about it. That is why America has a strong influence on the situation in the world in general.
~ Vladimir Putin
The power of finance to effect such important transitions in world history is that it moves economic value forward and backward through time.
~ William N. Goetzmann
The key architects of the nation's economic policy in the Clinton era (Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers) allowed the build-up of forces that would eventually blow the housing and banking industries sky-high. These forces were then multiplied by the reckless fiscal policy of the Bush Administration that enlarged the size of the national debt and set the stage for an economic train wreck.
~ William W. Priest
Assets are not inherently tangible or physical. An asset is an economic quantum. It may be attached to or represented by some physical object, or it may not. One of the common mistakes we all tend to make is that of attributing too much significance to the molecular concept of property. A
~ William W. Priest
The family has been sacrificed on the altar of economic and social success, and only the church can break that cycle, because it has found a better and more humane way to live: for God.
~ Wolfgang Simson