“When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then we must ask ourselves unflinchingly what is the cause of high unemployment. Quite simply and unequivocally, it is caused by paying ourselves more than the value of what we produce. There are no scapegoats.” ValuesAsksCausesEconomicProduceInstrumentsRejectsRemedySuperficialUnemploymentScapegoat Book:Time and chance Source: Time and chance
“Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.” HandsPoliticalValuesHumanityFallTechnologyRiskEconomicInstrumentsSuperstitionsExtensionsEconomic Power Author:Nicola Cabibbo
“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.” PastNationsSocialStruggleEconomicPolicyAchievementToolsDestructionInstrumentsViolentAgentsAspirationBombsChemicalsToxicPhasesSteelOrangeUndoneEconomic PolicyNon ViolentMacroNapalmToxic ChemicalsAgent Orange Author:Michel Chossudovsky
“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.” ImpossibleEconomicPolicyCrisisInstrumentsIntroducingProposeEuroEconomic Policy Author:Romano Prodi
“I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.” EconomyEconomicInstrumentsWagesBelive Author:John Howard