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“Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles.”

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

“The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal.”

“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due to differences in tax systems. I expected institutional constraints on the operation of labor markets and the nature of the unemployment benefit system to be more important. I was surprised that the welfare gain from reducing the intratemporal tax wedge is so large.”

“How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.”

Ifs Want Together Culture Differences Freedom Class Talent Building Personality Diversity Economics Distance Committed Sexuality Liberation Aspiration Working Together

Author:Irena Klepfisz

“It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.”

Sometimes Differences Masters Economics Favors Regulation Legislature Workmen Equitable Wealth Of Nations Counsellors

Book:The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master

Source: The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master

“There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks.”

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Book:Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

Source: Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

“Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'”

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Author:Brian L. Joiner

“The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major difference between the parties.”

People Has Beens Country Differences Party Class Middle Majors Economics Democrat Our Country Who We Are Middle Class Trickle Down

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.”

People Differences Business Concern Economics Management Making A Difference Credentials

Book:Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal

Source: Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal

“For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.”

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Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.”

Matter States Differences Liberty Economic Economics Welfare Welfare State Matter Of Time Totalitarian State

Author:Ayn Rand

“Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.”

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Book:The Ethics of Competition

Source: The Ethics of Competition

“The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.”

Should Philosophy Political Opportunity Differences Results Fairs Ideals Economics Should Have Fundamentals Equality Access Equality Of Opportunity

Author:Robert Reich

“There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.”

Bigs Easy Differences Youth Economics Partnership Unemployment Private Sector

Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible views. Then there's everybody else. ... To win, a politician needs to please the median voter. It makes little difference if a few thousand economists think you a fool.”

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Author:Bryan Caplan

“I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation. I want to be remembered for making a difference to global healthcare. And I want to be remembered as someone who did make a difference to social economic development in India.”

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