“People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.” PeopleNeedsWellsLife IsPurposeOrderAsksDifficultCreativityEconomicTypeAmbitionTasksAspirationLabourInsecurityContractsPortionsImmenseExhaustionEconomic SystemsRepetitive Author:Tony Benn
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.” YearsFirstsDoeHas BeensHappensProcessNumbersEconomicMankindRevolutionDevelopmentPeriodsModelsFirst TimeTasksTransformationClimateDepthClimate ChangeSettingSettingsDefinedYou ChooseCopConferencesEconomic DevelopmentIndustrial Revolution Author:Christiana Figueres
“We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!” IfsWorldWayNeedsGivingMayMeanFactsWisdomFacesYoungSufferingPoliticsImaginationAbilityVisionEconomyEconomicTasksFaultsEnthusiasmGrantedLiberalismEconomic SystemsCorrectingDrastic Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before us will be to chart a direction for the economic steps ahead. This will be a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future policy is a debate over history-a debate over the causes of our current situation. The battle for the past will determine the battle for the present. So it's crucial to get the history straight.” MomentsPastCausesBehindsSituationStepsEconomicDangerousPolicyBattleTasksCrisisThreatInvestingDetermineCurrentsCreditDebateCrucialUrgentCurrent Situation Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.” FirstsHumansGivenDifficultEconomicDevelopmentModelsFirst TimeTasksClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingHuman HistoryEconomic DevelopmentDifficult Tasks Author:Christiana Figueres
“Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity, the myth of equality can never become real. Far more than a hollow promise of future opportunity for their children, parents need jobs, income, and services. And children whose backgrounds have stunted their sense of the future need to be taught by example that they are good for more than they dared dream.” NeedsChildrenRealDreamSchoolJobsOpportunitySocialParentEconomicExampleTaughtPromiseTasksInstitutionsEducationalMythBackgroundsIncomeInequalityHollowSocial Inequality Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure
“The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia authorities face the complicated task of stabilising and reviving a devastated economy after years of regional conflicts, international isolation and economic mismanagement.” YearsFacesEconomyEconomicConflictAuthorityTasksInternationalComplicatedIsolationRepublicDevastatedYugoslaviaMismanagement Author:Stanley Fischer
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” KnowsMenLittlesLibertyImagineEconomicDesignEconomicsTasksLibertarianCuriousEconomistCentral PlanningMixed Economy Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“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
“Unsolvable problems do not exist. Any crisis is a combination of specific tasks to be worked on. The government has the experience and reserves to overcome the economic downturn” ProblemGovernmentEconomicTasksOvercomingCrisisCombinationReservesDownturnEconomic Downturn Author:Dmitry Medvedev
“I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.” ShouldHas BeensHelpingWould BeLawDifficultEconomicTasksGood ThingsAccomplishmentWildernessConservationDeprivedUrgentReductionHinderExtermination Author:Aldo Leopold
“Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.” WantImaginationTakenEconomicMilitaryTasksRevengeProfessionScalesAppealsMassiveEngineeringDomination Book:Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005 Source: Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005