#economy

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#change

We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can't balance the budget in the short term because to do that would be to ratchet down the economy. ↗

— David Axelrod

#balance #because #budget #debt #down

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#economy #human #machinery #manufactures #next

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#free #free economy #free-market #guy #how

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#escaping #however #individual #market #market economy

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#american #american values #book #culture #demonstrate

E eu pergunto aos economistas políticos, aos moralistas, se já calcularam o número de indivíduos que é forçoso condenar à miséria, ao trabalho desproporcionado, à desmoralização, à infâmia, à ignorância crapulosa, à desgraça invencível, à penúria absoluta, para produzir um rico? ↗

— Almeida Garrett

#money #politics #money

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. ↗

— Susan George

#21st century #century #competitive #crude #darwinian

Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#economy #fair #him #how #knows

In today's economy, it's more common to need two incomes to raise a family. ↗

— John Fisher

#economy #family #incomes #more #need