Quotes About Economic systems

however, is that there is no alternative. Communist societies, social democracies, and even modest social welfare states like the United States have all failed, the neoliberals proclaim, and their citizens have accepted neoliberalism as the only feasible course.

In a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

C]apitalism--democracy's sidekick

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

The Soviet Union was a partial check on capitalist looting in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. However, with the Soviet collapse, capitalist looting intensified during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes.

The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

engines of wealth; they must be viewed as systems that should be shaped to improve human well-being.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

The experience of the past leaves little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient. Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce—except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Communism rots the body, Capitalism rots the soul.

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.

las economías basadas en la represión del trabajo y los sistemas como la esclavitud y la servidumbre carecen claramente de innovación. Esto es así desde el mundo antiguo hasta la era moderna

capitalism always did manage to make the comfort industry work better than socialism did.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.