1,161 Quotes About Economics

...a study of all 50 U.S. States found that those states marked out by large inequalities of power in terms of income and ethnicity had weaker environmental policies and suffered greater ecological degradation. Furthermore, one study covering 50 countries found the more unequal a country is, the more likely the biodiversity of its landscape is to be under threat.

…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.

Where the riches are engrossed by a few, these must contribute very largely to the supplying of the public necessities.

Human society, when we contemplate it in a certain abstract and philosophical light, appears like a great, an immense machine.

How you think and create your inner world that you gonna become in your outer world. Your inner believe manifest you in the outside

The earth's fertility resembles a spring that is being pressed downwards... the effect of additional weights will gradually diminish.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

Economists have their glories, but i do not believe that antitrust law is one of them.

Universal competition, or the effort to always produce more, and always at a lower price... has been a dangerous system.