“I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.” WorldSelfPoliticalImaginationSawsGrowingMilitaryInformationAmountEconomicsComplexesRateCensorshipPublishingCollectingMilitary Industrial ComplexSelf Censorship Author:Julian Assange
“By the way on economics, South Carolina is an example to the country of what we should be doing as Americans. This country has a vast manufacturing base. It is growing in manufacturing where America is shrinking and it's because they have reduced taxes and lower regulatory burdens and been pro-business.” WayShouldCountryAmericaGrowingExampleTaxesEconomicsSouthBurdenManufacturingCarolinaShrinkingSouth Carolina Author:Marco Rubio
“The American people are growing extremely unhappy with establishment politics, with establishment economics, and you know what else? Even with establishment media.” PeopleKnowsGrowingMediaEconomicsUnhappyEstablishment Author:Bernie Sanders
“Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.” PeopleCountryAmericaPoliticalEconomyGrowingEconomicPoliticianModelsSolutionsEconomicsRejectionRejectsLatinRejectedImperialismGlobalizationLatin AmericaArgentinaProblems And SolutionsVenezuelaNeoliberalismEconomic ModelsEconomic Globalization Author:Evo Morales
“There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politics.” HandsPoliticalPoliticsGrowsEconomyGrowingEconomicsCurrentsInternational RelationsPolitical SystemsGlobal EconomyDisparityDichotomy Author:Walter Wriston
“Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.” Has BeensGrowthEnvironmentGrowingCostResourcesEconomicsAddictionPollutionExhaustion Book:Collected Papers: Toward the Twenty-First Century : Political Economy, Social Systems, and World Peace Source: Collected Papers: Toward the Twenty-First Century : Political Economy, Social Systems, and World Peace
“Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is growing in the United States. He deplores the perverse effects of minimum wage laws, and the legal minimum is regularly raised each 3 or 5 years. He brands usury laws as a medieval superstition, but no state hurries to repeal its law.” GivingYearsStatesPhilosophyLawPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesGrowingAdviceEffectsEconomicsTradeRaisedCeaseBrandsSuperstitionsMinimumIgnoredEconomistMedievalMinimum WageFree TradeUsuryProtectionism Author:George Stigler
“If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.” IfsWayCountryGrowthBusinessEnvironmentGrowingEconomicEconomicsEconomic GrowthBusiness GrowthForfeit Author:Tony Blair
“America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies.” WorldJobsAmericaSoundTermTechnologyEconomyEnvironmentGrowingDemandGainsEconomicsTradeMeetings Author:John McCain
“Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market” PeopleIdeasHappensBusinessEconomyGrowingSeeingSkillsLowsResourcesEconomicsManagementThings HappenCarbonMake Things HappenTechnical Skills Author:Tom DeLay
“I became a vegetarian in 1958 and it was very difficult in those days to really maintain that because there weren't many options... alternatives. But, now, it's a growing trend because... the economics are there. See, there's simply enough people demanding it that it's profitable to supply vegetarians with those products.” PeopleEnoughDifficultGrowingProductsEconomicsAlternativesVegetarianTrendsProfitable Author:Dennis Weaver