“If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global impact over the next fifty years than the collectivist economics of Marxism and neo-Marxism have had during the half century just past.” IfsWorldYearsWisdomPastNextPoliticsHalfEconomyGreaterEconomicCenturyUniqueEconomicsImpactVariousLiberalismFiftyRegionsRequirementsMarxismAdaptedPluralism Author:Robert Dickson Crane
“I think green buildings are extremely important but it's only part of the equation. A lot of people think that if I put a green building everything is going to be fine, but actually it's not just the green buildings we need, but green businesses, green governments, green economics. We have to extend the greening of buildings to our business and our lifestyles - that is the most important thing to do next.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsImportantGovernmentNextBuildingFineEconomicsGreenImportant ThingsLifestyleThings To DoEquationsGreening Author:Ken Yeang
“What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.” KnowsYearsBelieveNextProcessResultsPovertyIssuesEconomicTalentDevelopmentEconomicsIncreaseTwentiesHungerProsperityBrilliantWorthwhileEconomistSpend TimeDiscussingTwenty OneTheoristsEconomic Prosperity Author:Muhammad Yunus
“In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.” NextBusinessWorryEconomicsManagementMealsEconomist Author:Peter Drucker
“A tip for generalists who try to read economic research papers: If you get to a section that's incomprehensible, don't give up. Just skip to the next section.” IfsGivingTryingNextEconomicGiving UpPaperResearchEconomicsSectionsPapersDon't Give UpSkipGeneralists Author:David Leonhardt
“Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.” NextCitiesKnownEconomicsTechniqueDestroyingBombingRent Control Author:Assar Lindbeck
“Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.” PeopleYearsWholeNextEconomyProductsEconomicsIntroducingOld FashionedNext YearObsoleteObsolescencePlanned Obsolescence Author:Brooks Stevens
“You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.” FormNextSleepMorningEconomicEconomicsWake UpGoing To SleepEconomic Systems Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.” PhilosophyPoliticalNextWhiteEconomicsWorkersCyclesRecessionsCollarsWhite Collar Author:Robert Reich
“The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle” DoeNextNaturalBusinessWasteModelsResourcesEconomicsManagementProductionsProductivityCyclesReplacedFlawedRestorationNatural ResourcesLinearDisposableInefficiencySystemic Change Author:Ellen MacArthur
“Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity.” NextOpportunityBusinessCuttingStageEconomicsManagementClimateClimate ChangeCriticalSignificantChainsContributionCarbonEmissionsSupply ChainCarbon Emissions Author:Tom DeLay
“People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too” PeopleThinkingKnowsHappensNextBlackIgnoranceFoolEconomicsSurpriseBrilliantInevitableSwansBlack Swan Author:Martin Wolf