“The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.” ChallengesEconomicCitizensOffersBehaviorCompetitionComplexesPatternsCooperationDelicateEconomistPhysicistIntricateChemistStockholm Author:George Stigler
“Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.” PeopleIfsLooksOrderLiteraturePoorPovertyEconomicProduceCapitalismFunctionArmyComplexesFolksCeaseLazyUnemploymentDeservingUnemployedParcelSociologicalUnintelligentEconomic OrderUnderemployed Author:Bob Torres
“Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.” HumansHas BeensWholeShowsSeemsActionLife IsCausesWealthResultsClassPovertyEconomicConditionsSubjectsCrimeBehaviorClaimsPropertyComplexesEndlessStatisticsImperfectHuman BehaviorDistributionHeredityDistribution Of Wealth Author:Clarence Darrow
“The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.” IfsWorldProblemSocialSimpleEconomicTreatsInfiniteComplexesArisePsychologicalFinitePersistentEcologicalEconomic SystemsInterconnectedMismatch Author:Donella Meadows
“I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth.” PeopleStatesSeemsYoungNationsSocialGrowthUnitedUnited StatesEconomicMilitaryConcernedComplexesDeterminedPreservesControlledWarfareStatus QuoRapidsHemisphereIntoxicatedMilitary Industrial Complex Author:Luis A. Ferre
“These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the same stale Washington ideas. Five decades and trillions of dollars after President Johnson waged his War on Poverty, the results of this big-government approach are in.” IdeasWarBigsGovernmentOpportunitySocialCausesPresidentResultsPovertyFiveEconomicApproachDollarsComplexesEducationalDecadesInequalityContinuingJohnsonStaleBig GovernmentWar On PovertyPresident Johnson Author:Marco Rubio
“Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people's choices are not based on a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world views are available to them. Most are doing the best they can, given what information they've received and what problems they are facing.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveProblemRealitySpiritualDesireChoicesIndividualGivenForceSocialHurtViewsEconomicInformationShapesJudgmentComplexesAvailablePsychologicalEthicalAccordWorld View Author:Michael Lerner
“Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.” NationsEconomicMilitaryComplexesExcuseDebtAdministrationEmergenciesPlungeTreasuryGopWartimeMilitary Industrial Complex Book:Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson Source: Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
“It is impossible to manage the health care requirements of tens of millions of American citizens at the federal level. It is impossible to manage all of the permutations of people's economic aspirations and lives through a complex tax code. It is impossible to try to second-guess the market. It is impossible, from a managerial standpoint, for the federal government to do the things it is trying to do today.” PeopleTryingGovernmentCareTodayLevelsMillionsImpossibleEconomicCitizensTaxesComplexesManageHealth CareCodeAspirationRequirementsFederal GovernmentStandpointAmerican Citizens Author:Frederick W. Smith
“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'.” WorldWritingEconomicPolicyOrganizationInstitutionsTradeComplexesFinancialInternationalReformCombinationArroganceFundFragileLegislationMonetaryBannerEconomic PolicyWorld TradeParliamentaryFlutteringRuthlessnessFinancial InstitutionsWorld BankWorld Trade Organization Author:Arundhati Roy
“The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy.” PeopleBigsRunningEnergyEconomicStreetsMilitaryPolicyWallComplexesOilForeign PolicyEconomic PolicyMilitary Industrial ComplexEnergy PolicyBig Oil Author:Alan Grayson
“Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city, and bankers and corporate executives have cited it as the only natural limit to economic growth.” ForceGrowthWaterNaturalCitiesEconomyEconomicLimitsComplexesCorporateSubtleExecutivesExpansionEconomic GrowthBankersConstraints Author:Margaret Catley-Carlson
“Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.” WellsPoliticalSocialIssuesGreaterEconomicComplexesGlobalizationClosenessEconomic Globalization Author:Amartya Sen
“I think it's wrong for North America in particular, the West in general to make a comparison between the economic situation in Cuba and the extraordinarily developed industrial complex of North America.” ThinkingAmericaSituationEconomicParticularWestComplexesComparisonCubaNorth America Author:Huey Newton