“Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.” DecisionPowerShareEconomicPerspectiveCapitalismAffectedMakersEngagementDecision Makers Author:Barney Frank
“With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.” PeopleEndsHappensCoursesShareEconomicMajorsConcernGreedLabelsExploitsNapster Author:Ian MacKaye
“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
“The world is now unipolar and contains only one superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.” WorldImportantStatesPoliticalValuesGivenInterestAbilityUnitedCommonUnited StatesShareInfluenceEconomicSecurityPolicyExerciseUniqueObjectivesCanadaForeign PolicyContinentsMaintainingSuperpower Author:Stephen Harper
“Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.” PeopleMenWarHandsMightAgeCoursesSidesCommonEnemyClassShareEconomicConflictUnderstoodMen And WomenDestructionThreatLibertarianScalesPeacefulProductiveSentimentsRulersRulingFree ManScourgeCommon Enemy Book:The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom Source: The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom
“We believe this approach (progress sharing) is a rational approach because you cooperate in creating the abundance that makes the progress possible, and then you share that progress after the fact, and not before the fact. Profit sharing would resolve the conflict between management apprehensions and worker expectations on the basis of solid economic facts as they materialize rather than on the basis of speculation as to what the future might hold.” BelieveFactsMightPoliticsEconomyProgressShareEconomicConflictApproachCreatingExpectationsBasesManagementWorkersProfitRationalAbundanceLiberalismResolveSpeculationApprehensionProfit Sharing Author:Walter Reuther
“We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.” IfsMenWayShouldHas BeensSaidPayShareEconomicChangedTaxesBenefitsFairsBurdenOne ManAnother ManLivelihoodNot FairLoopholesFair ShareTax SystemNooses Book:Speaking up Source: Speaking up
“Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground.” StatesFactsReligiousShareEconomicSpecialCarMaterialsIndustryHorsePossessionOilTreasureAttachmentRootedAutomobileMaterial PossessionsTexanOil Industry Author:Jim Atkinson
“Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.” MenGivingWellsChildrenCareResponsibilityWifeShareEconomicHusbandGiving UpAssumingFinancialWell BeingExclusiveBeing A WomanParentalChild CareResponsibility For Children Author:Augustus
“By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.” PoliticalDecisionPowerShareEconomicMilitaryEventsConsequenceDecidedCirclesElitesIntricateCliqueOverlapping Book:The Power Elite Source: The Power Elite
“There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at each of those 11 states over the last 50 years, and I took their current economic metrics and their metrics for the five years before they put in the progressive income tax... Every single state that introduced a progressive income tax has declined as an overall share of the U.S. economy.” YearsStatesLastsUnitedUnited StatesEconomyFiveShareEconomicTaxesCurrentsIncomeFive YearsProgressiveIncome TaxMetrics Author:Arthur Laffer
“Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through.” IfsHumansStillsProblemFacesHuman BeingsAttitudeCompassionEconomyShareEconomicSubjectsFellowsFortuneCompassionateDeclineUps & DownsGlobal EconomyEconomic Problems Author:Dalai Lama
“We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. We must break the obsolete social and economic systems that divide the world between the over-privileged and the under-privileged. Each of us, whether government leader or protester, business executive or worker, professor or student, share a common guilt.” ThinkingWorldWayGovernmentDesireHumanityWishSocialCommonLeaderBreakGroupsShareEconomicStudentsModelsGuiltEnvironmentalWorkersExecutivesDividesProfessorsPrivilegedStewardshipObsoleteEconomic Systems Author:Ivan Illich
“America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical change in the underdeveloped world because independent governments would destroy the world economic and political system, which assures the United States its disproportionate share of economic and political power ... America's preeminent wealth depends upon keeping things in the underdeveloped world much as they are, allowing change and modernization to proceed only in a controlled, orderly, and nonthreatening way.” WorldWayStatesGovernmentAmericaPoliticalWealthUnitedUnited StatesShareEconomicRevolutionDependsIndependentCommittedRadicalBritainControlledAllowingStatus QuoPolitical SystemsDefendersOrderlyPolitical PowerRadical ChangeModernization Author:Richard Barnet
“As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New Financial Order, Robert Shiller joins this proud tradition by directing his brilliant economic skills toward the creation of financial institutions designed to reduce the risks an unknown future visits on most members of our society and others. Shiller's imaginative and compelling analysis will appeal to all readers who share his passion for initiating not only a richer, but a better, century.” WayPastOrderPassionGoalRiskShareEconomicCenturyCreationReaderProudSkillsMembersEconomicsTraditionFunctionInstitutionsFinancialPhilosopherBrilliantAppealsAnalysisOur SocietyCompellingWorldlyImaginativeFinancial InstitutionsUnknown Future Author:Peter L. Bernstein
“In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.” HumanityPowerfulCommonShareEconomicDisasterRecoveryMidstUpheavalCommon HumanityEconomic Recovery Author:Barack Obama
“It's too low, and if Europe wants to be a force in the world it needs to be more than a moral and political and economic force, which Europe is because it shares many of our values and demonstrates them around the world. But it has to have the military power that goes with that as well.” IfsWorldWantNeedsWellsPoliticalValuesForceMoralShareEconomicMilitaryLowsEuropeAround The WorldMilitary Power Author:Ashton Carter
“The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then this is going to lead to spending cuts. And if you put off the table things like national defense, then you're going to end up cutting more and more out of programs that aid the poor. So, I think there are consequences to this idea that tolerance for inequality requires us to - to just do nothing to make the wealthy contribute a higher share of resources to fund the government.” IfsThinkingIdeasEndsProblemGovernmentWealthPoorPayMoralCuttingGrowingShareEconomicHigherTaxesConsequenceResourcesProgramTablesSpendingDefenseAidsToleranceIncomeInequalityFundWealthyDistributionUnwillingNational DefenseEconomic ProblemsSpending CutsIncome Distribution Author:Bruce Bartlett
“The abundance that is offered to us by leaving behind the fossil fuel paradigm is very promising for the world and the people of the world. We will have cleaner air, water, and food; we will have more resources to share with our people. There will be more economic freedom because people will be able to harvest their own energy.” PeopleWorldAbleEnergyWaterBehindsAirShareEconomicResourcesLeavingAbundanceFuelHarvestFossilsParadigmFossil FuelCleanersEconomic Freedom Author:Mark Ruffalo
“Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation to political and economic life it's rounding on religion, ignoring the fact that, in some key respects, many believers are likely to share leftist aspirations.” FactsPoliticalLeftShareAtheismEconomicKeysRelationCrisisBelieverAspirationAgendasLeftists Author:George Pattison