“AS an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.” WorldNeedsTwoWarStatesWinningGrowthUnitedClassMillionsUnited StatesEconomicMiddlePolicyAppreciateWar Of The WorldsMiddle ClassSentimentsHistorianEnginesTicketsManufacturingPublic PolicyTwo Worlds Author:Christina Romer
“We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful... The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one” PeopleYearsFirstsWellsLooksStatesDreamCareAmericaPurposeHouseLanguageProcessLinesUnitedUnited StatesEconomicLandStrangeReturnHigherComfortMeetingsPainfulImmigrationObligationWell BeingCustomsPurpose Of LifeEnginesFulfillingPersuasionArrivalsEconomic SystemsYears Of LifeHigher PurposeNew Arrivals Author:John Lachs
“Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic freedom is the world's mightiest engine for abundance and social justice... Developing countries need to be encouraged to experiment with a growing variety of arrangements for profit sharing and expanded capital ownership.” WorldNeedsCountryUseWisdomPoliticsEnergySocialJusticeEffortEconomyGrowingEconomicSocial JusticeProfitExperimentsVarietyDevelopingAbundanceLiberalismEnginesOwnershipArrangementsAssistanceMaximumPrivate SectorBe EncouragedDeveloping CountriesEconomic FreedomProfit Sharing Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.” WorldYearsEconomyEconomicProductsWeakResponseBillionsStrongestEnginesImports Author:Jennifer Granholm
“Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.” PurposeGrowthTechnologyEconomicExampleInnovationEnginesFactoriesElectricityEconomic GrowthSteamComplementaryCascadeSteam EnginesRedesign Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.” IfsThinkingMadeMatterPresidentEnvironmentEconomicBrokenRelationInternationalEnginesNutritionInternational RelationsAbrahamEconomic SystemsHealth And Nutrition Author:Rainn Wilson
“You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine from one that's based on fossil fuels to one that isn't.” WholeTurnsEconomicFuelEnginesFossilsPointingFossil Fuel Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
“It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.” AmericaGrowthClassGenerationsEconomicMiddleTasksRisingMiddle ClassEnginesEconomic GrowthOur Generation Author:Barack Obama
“Entrepreneurship is the engine fuelling innovation, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneur- ship can prosper and where entrepreneurs can try new ideas and empower others can we ensure that many of the world’s issues will not go unaddressed.” WorldTryingIdeasGrowthIssuesEnvironmentGenerationsEconomicCreatingInnovationEntrepreneurShipsEmploymentEntrepreneurshipEmpoweringEnginesNew IdeasEconomic Growth Author:Klaus Schwab
“I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space?” IfsSpaceEconomicLibertarianEnginesCapitalistDescribe Myself Author:Peter Diamandis