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“A core element of Permacapital Economics Is the price mechanism. Whereby, individual economic participants determine the prices of the products and services they sell and buy, according to supply and demand. Supply and demand is based on individual choices. Supply and demand determines the production of and prices of products and services. Prices naturally strive for equilibrium, as if being led by an invisible hand. Because buyers will always have a highest price point beyond which they are unwilling to pay for a given product or service, thereby making it unprofitable for sellers to attempt to sell those products or services beyond that price point. Similarly, sellers have a lowest price point beyond which they are unwilling or unable to sell a given product or service. This generally eliminates the existence of products or services which provide no net gain to society. The price system is the most efficient mechanism for ensuring that the needs and desires of buyers and sellers are adequately met among people in society, and that members of society at large has access to the highest quality and quantity of products and services.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy

Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“When a man wants to rob a bank he hides behind a mask, but when a banker wants to rob a man, he hides behind a corporation.”

Greed Working Class Economic Policy Income Inequality

Book:We Can Fix It: Reclaiming the American Dream

Source: We Can Fix It: Reclaiming the American Dream

“It (balancing the budget) is like protecting your virtue, you have to learn to say no!”

Humor Budgets Economic Policy Government Spending

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The "Push to Perfection Mechanism" is a vital component of a Permacapital Economy. In this type of economy, there is a strong emphasis on timely and voluntary exchange of services and payments between employees, suppliers, and customers. All parties involved expect accountability from businesses, although their expectations differ.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy

Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“Productivity is a crucial economic driver in both capitalism and Permacapital Economics. However, the frameworks differ in their approach to its purpose and the ethical and social considerations that surround its pursuit. Capitalism often prioritizes productivity as a means to maximize profit and economic growth, while Permacapital Economics seeks to harness productivity for sustainable value creation and equitable distribution within ecological limits.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy

Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“A core element of Permacapital Economics is the voluntary exchange of products and services between people, businesses and governments. Each economic participant is free to choose who they will buy from and sell to. There is no force, collusion, or coercion determining the exchange of products or services.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy

Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“In a Permacapital Economy, the patterns of production, the uses of private property, the delegation of resources, the regulation of industry/commerce, and the movement of prices are all based largely on the desires and demands of the consumers, within the reasonable limits of regulation. Too much consumer sovereignty will result in the pursuit of low prices and convenience Being at the expense of good wages, harmony with nature, social cohesion, etc. Too little consumer sovereignty will result in the dominance of government and industry to the extent that the freedoms (liberties) of the people are infringed upon and the efficiency of the whole economy is reduced.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy

Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“Because Permacapital Economics prioritizes profit for each individual, it therefore respects the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of each individual.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy

Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“Permacapital Economics, as a framework, places a high value on ensuring that each individual has the opportunity to earn a profit or achieve economic success. In doing so, it acknowledges the fundamental principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy

Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“It is a matter of efficiency, practicality and productivity that labor as a whole be divided into specialty jobs that come together to produce greater value than could be produced without such division. Businesses will tend to create new jobs which serve a special function. Therefore, workers will be incentivized to skill themselves such that they may be employed in certain functional roles according to their availability in the marketplace. This phenomena contributes to efficiency at scale, in the economy. Any law or policy or cultural trend which inhibits the division of labor will consequently inhibit efficiency in the economy.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy

Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“In a Permacapital Economy, businesses are born and businesses die. When businesses are providing value to customers and society, and doing so with fair prices, better than their competitors - they remain alive. When businesses are unable or unwilling to provide value to customers and society and are overpriced and worse than competitors - they die. The process is determined by what is best for society, naturally, by the various mechanisms at play in the Permacapital Economy.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy

Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“In a Permacapital Economy, the life and death of businesses are natural and essential components of the market’s self-regulating mechanism.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy

Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“The notion that elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy, indeed any policy, is a gift to [founder and leader of Singapore] Lee Kuan Yew supporters or indeed the Chinese communist party, who also believe this to be true. There is of course a long tradition of doubting the efficacy of the democratic process. But I would like to think that his tradition has been expelled long ago from the heart of Europe. It now seems that the euro crisis has brought it back. I urge you all to band together in a collective bid to resist it. Democracy is not a luxury to be afforded to the creditors and denied to the debtors. Indeed, it is the lack of democratic process in the heart of our monetary union that is perpetuating the euro crisis. Then again, I might be wrong. Colleagues, if you think that I am wrong, if you agree with Wolfgang, then I invite you to say so explicitly by proposing that elections should be suspended in countries like Greece until the country's programme is completed. What is the point of spending money on elections and asking our people to get all fired up to elect governments that will have no capacity to change anything?”

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Book:Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment

Source: Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment

“America has been much better than almost every other country at resisting the temptation to interfere with the logic of creative destruction. In most of the world, politicians have made a successful business out of promising the benefits of creative destruction without the costs. Communists have blamed the costs on capitalist greed. Populists have blamed them on sinister vested interests. European-style socialists have taken a more mature approach, admitting that creation and destruction are bound together, but claiming to be able to boost the creative side of creative destruction while eliminating the destructive side through a combination of demand management and wise intervention. The result has usually been disappointing: stagnation, inflation, or some other crisis.”

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Book:Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States

Source: Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States

“We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.”

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Author:Mariano Rajoy

“My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.”

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Author:Joe Kyrillos

“My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.”

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Author:James Meade

“I had been secretary of state for eight years, attorney general for four years, lieutenant governor for four years, and governor for four years - I had all these friends around the country - so I thought I could gin up a campaign not for me but against George W. Bush, against his war, against his economic policies, and against his education policies.”

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Author:Don Siegelman

“An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.”

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Author:John W. Snow

“President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.”

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Author:Bob Beauprez

“I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the average American to find good employment and see their incomes rise; that we can't just look at things in the aggregate, we do want to grow the pie, but we want to make sure that prosperity is spread across the spectrum of regions and occupations and genders and races; and that economic policy should focus on growing the pie, but it also has to make sure that everybody has got opportunity in that system.”

“When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“There is no economic policy. That's really important to say. The general modus operandi of the Bushies is that they don't make policies to deal with problems. They use problems to justify things they wanted to do anyway. So there is no policy to deal with the lack of jobs. There really isn't even a policy to deal with terrorism. It's all about how can we spin what's happening out there to do what we want to do.”

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Author:Paul Krugman

“By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.”

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Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy.”

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Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date.”

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Author:Louis O. Kelso

“In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of the people: in our case, with the President and the Congress. If these two follow economic policies inimical to the general welfare, they are accountable to the people for their actions on election day. With Federal Reserve independence, however, a body of men exist who control one of the most powerful levers moving the economy and who are responsible to no one.”

“The Federal Reserve is the overlord of the money supply. If these two are not steering in the same direction, they can either neutralize each other or have the economy lurching in all directions. This is not a rational system for setting economic policy. It has given us trouble in the past, as the text will establish, and will inevitably in the future.”

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Author:Wright Patman

“The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right and in order to be strong enough to control their own government.”

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Author:Ndabaningi Sithole

“The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.”

“'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.”

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Author:Alan Blinder

“Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.”

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Author:Keith Ellison

“I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created.”

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Author:Romano Prodi

“When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech, it shows how clueless she is about how the economy actually works.”

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Author:Carly Fiorina

“The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.”

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Author:Marc Faber

“The White House is defending President Obama's sports activities over the past week, saying that everyone needs leisure time. Thanks to these economic policies, 9.5 percent of Americans have all the leisure time they need.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but thoughtful economic policy, diversification and unity between the country's leadership and people guarantee that this year will be successful for us.”

“The countries that have risen and separated out as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union are, on the whole, following freer economic policies. Most of these states have freer government and less restrictions on trade.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.”

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Book:Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth

Source: Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth

“Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.”

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Author:Gerhard Schroder

“The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given its most extreme form in anti-Western academe. Second, it is used as a negative label for any effort by the United States, or the West, to encourage liberties, to block fanaticisms, and to make aid dependent on positive economic policies. Those concerned with the future development of their countries, and of the world, cannot afford to let obsolete resentments distort their aims.”

“I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.”

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Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.”

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Author:Paul Krugman

“In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread.”

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Author:Wen Jiabao

“In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extremist groups were still there. And when the aid and assistance to Pakistan was cut, we had to adopt harsh economic policies. So in a way, it showed that democracy doesn't pay, and the military was able to reassert itself.”

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Author:Benazir Bhutto

“Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate”

“Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.”

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Author:James Cook

“The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation. With a deadly combination of arrogance and ruthlessness, they take their sledgehammers to fragile, interdependent, historically complex societies and devastate them, all under the fluttering banner of 'reform'.”

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