“Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.” HumansMeanUseCommonEconomyShareEconomicWasteResourcesResponsibleDefinitionsConsumersDamageAppropriateGoodsLionsConsumerismEconomistDictionaryOverconsumptionOxford Author:Alan Thein Durning
“All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.” RiskEconomicTomorrowActivityDefinitionsYesterdayHigh Risk Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
“The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.” PeopleGovernmentTurnsPowerEconomicDefinitionsCorporateFascismCoveringClinicalsEconomic Power Author:Ralph Nader
“Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has meaning only in heterosexual systems of thought and heterosexual, economic systems. Lesbians are not women.” ProblemEconomicPerspectiveDefinitionsEconomic Systems Author:Monique Wittig
“By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.” HandsPracticeEconomicDesignCapitalismDefinitionsExclusionEconomic Power Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world
“According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.” MenWayFeelsChildrenDoeHas BeensOrderTurnsSocialAnimalEconomicAbuseDefinitionsBehaveHardshipPrivilegedTurn-onPyramidsHumiliatedHumiliateMale Dominance Author:Ana Castillo
“We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.” HumansKindChildrenSchoolReadingHuman BeingsEducationEconomicStandardsAdultsIncreaseOur ChildrenDefinitionsScorePrincipalEconomic SystemsChalkYardsticks Author:Kenneth Keniston
“My definition of economic development is economic growth.” GrowthEconomicDevelopmentDefinitionsEconomic GrowthEconomic Development Author:Mark Noble
“I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.” PoliticalSocialFeminismEconomicDefinitionsDictionaryWomen EqualityEconomic Equality Author:Jessica Valenti