Economic Quotes - Page 38

• Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

  John Mica

  Reform, Joining, Permit

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• Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Technology, Phones, Missing

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• In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

  B. F. Skinner

  Children, Deserve You, World

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.137, Hackett Publishing

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• Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

  Augustus

  Husband, Children, Giving Up

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• Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.

  Hillary Clinton

  Tough Economic Times, Favors, Way

  "Bill O'Reilly: Hillary Clinton for president", www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2015.

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• There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.

  Jane Jacobs

  Fashion, Lying, Dwelling

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.216, Vintage

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• Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

  David Almond

  Children, Different, Want

  "A hit from a myth" by Kit Spring, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2003.

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• In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

  Kathy Acker

  Lying, Political, Warfare

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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• To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually 'Sarvodaya' or the 'rise of all'. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Numbers, Growth, Saws

  "Celebrating 100 years of Satyagraha". www.dnaindia.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.

  Tim Harford

  Real, Book, Player

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• College radio is a very important medium that needs to survive in difficult economic times when some stations are being sold off and shut down. College radio is the future for broadcasting stars and pioneers of tomorrow, and we as a band, Coldplay, support the vital mission of college radio and we also support College Radio Day, the day when college radio comes together.

  Chris Martin

  Stars, College, Support

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• Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Country, Usual, World

  Interview with Tomilson Hill, www.cfr.org.

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• Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.

  Keith Ellison

  Progressive, Economy, Policy

  "This Is Our Moment" by Rep. Keith Ellison, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2011.

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• From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.

  Jeb Hensarling

  Opportunity, Government, Obamacare

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Views, Political

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

  Elizabeth Warren

  People, Ladders, Pay

  "Coming to a Post Office Near You: Loans You Can Trust?". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 01, 2014.

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• Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, Balance, Rich

  "George Osborne unveils employee 'shares for rights' scheme" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.

  Murray Rothbard

  Law, Principles, Example

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• In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Numbers, Issues, Long

  "Rep. Van Hollen: President has acted on economic issues". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.

  Bryan Caplan

  Selfish, Expectations, Political

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• During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model -- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Europe, America

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.306, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Want, Assuming

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• The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read.

  Robert Fogel

  Wise, Book, Deep Understanding

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• I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Spiritual, Believe, Social

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia”

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• Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.

  Peter Singer

  Clothes, People, House

  Peter Singer (2000). “Marx: A Very Short Introduction”, p.121, OUP Oxford

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