Quotes About Economic

Democracy] had to be local, popular and spread across all the institutions of civil society. It had to extend to economic as well as political life. The state Marx approved of was the rule of citizens over themselves, not of a minority over a majority.

Many anglophone Africans still have deep emotional, economic and often familial links to Britain, but those with money are now as keen to holiday in Dubai as London.

Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.

I'm impressed by the economic development of Korea. And women scientists played, without doubt, an important role in it.

We live in a country that has profited for hundreds of years off the labor of individuals without having to pay for it.

I'm an entrepreneur trying to let the American people know that it's not immigrants that are causing economic problems, it is the fact that our economy is advancing in ways that is making human labor less and less essential.

Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts.

When I have been speaking to people in Braintree and at other places in the country they really didn't buy into Labour's economic offer, didn't buy into scare stories about the NHS and clearly didn't trust Jeremy Corbyn.

Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.

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

The term "productivity" is an economic measure referring to averages, not the well-being of individuals. Excess fertility and musculature are not the criteria that we use to judge the well-being of human beings, and they are not indices of avian well-being either. They more likely signify the opposite.

This leads up to our thesis which still remains to be proven: that the origins of the cataclysm lay in the utopian endeavor of economic liberalism to set up a self-regulating market system.

the organization of labor is only another word for the forms of life of the common people, this means that the development of the market system would be accompanied by a change in the organization of society itself. All along the line, human society had become an accessory of the economic system.

Workers, farmers, and small business people will not tolerate for any length of time a pattern of economic organization in which they are subject to periodic dramatic fluctuations in their daily economic circumstances.

This stark picture of humanity and our planetary home at the start of the twenty-first century is a powerful indictment of the path of global economic development that has been pursued to date. Billions of people still fall far short of their most basic needs, but we have already crossed into global ecological danger zones that profoundly risk undermining Earth's benevolent stability

our beliefs about economic growth are almost religious: personal in nature, political in consequence, privately held and little discussed.

As these students quickly discover, our beliefs about economic growth are almost religious: personal in nature, political in consequence, privately held and little discussed.

W.W. Rostow's Five Stages of Growth (Twentieth-Century Journey) 1. Traditional society 2. Preconditions for take-off 3. Take-off 4. Drive to maturity 5. Age of high mass-consumption

Worldwide, one person in nine does not have enough to eat.8 In 2015, six million children under the age of five died, more than half of those deaths due to easy-to-treat conditions such as diarrhoea and malaria.9 Two billion people live on less than $3 a day, and over 70 million young women and men are unable to find work.

by the end of the 1950s, output growth had become the overriding policy objective in industrial countries.

Don't wait for economic growth to reduce inequality—because it won't. Instead, create an economy that is distributive by design.

environmental quality is higher where income is more equitably distributed, where more people are literate, and civil and political rights are better respected. It's people power, not economic growth persay, that protects local air and water quality. Likewise, it is citizen pressure on government and companies for more stringent standards, not the mere increase in revenue that compels industries to switch to cleaner technologies.

Regenerative industrial design can only be fully realised if it is underpinned by regenerative economic design.

Between 1988 and 2008, the majority of countries worldwide saw rising inequality within their borders, resulting in a hollowing out of their middle classes. Over those same 20 years, global inequality fell slightly overall (mostly thanks to falling poverty rates in China), but it increased significantly at the extremes.