1,161 Quotes About Economics

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

Minimum standards to promote workers' wages, health and safety, to safeguard the community against pollution and degradation, and to ensure basic life goods for all as a basic contract for civil society was between 1945 and the mid-1970s, in fact, a rapidly evolving framework which inhibited the causes and effects of a corporate market system committed to an opposed goal.

Ban privileges. The rules of the game should be the same to all players, regardless of their size, location, or any other criteria

Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation

CEOs should be measured by the value they create into the community, the shareholders and the members of the company.

Adapt and adopt the peer-to-peer and open source models to wider implementation in organisations

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

One who criticises capitalism while approving of immigration, of which the working class is its first victim, would do better to remain silent. One who criticises immigration while remaining silent regarding capitalism should do the same.