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“Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.”

Shows Order Growth Nature Community Economy Environment Healthy Smart Built Green Show Me Conservation Infrastructure Smart Growth

Author:Will Rogers

“Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our own country. The present economy generates wars to protect its profits and its short-term interests, while squandering the future. Unless we transform the economy, we cannot end war.”

World War Ends Country Term Interest Economy Democracy Economic Protect Economics Thirds Profit Short Term Transforming Third World Squandering

Author:Starhawk

“An economy may be in equilibrium from a short-period point of view and yet contain within itself incompatibilities that are soon going to knock it out of equilibrium.”

May Views Economy Periods Point Of View Equilibrium Incompatibility

Author:Joan Robinson

“Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.”

May Play Prayer Economy Divine

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales.”

Has Beens Form Economy Development Credit Primitive Parallels Could Have Been Monetary Organizational

Author:Peter Dicken

“A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.”

Real Past Economy Activity Essentials Financial Decades Features Operations Transactions Financial Services

Book:Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

“Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.”

World States Economy Productions Centre Global Economy Flux Mosaics World Economy Periphery

Book:Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

“One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly than employment in manufacturing. It is this trend that has led to the view that developed economies have become de-industrialized and that they are now effectively service economies.”

Has Beens Grows Views Economy Employment Trends 1960s Manufacturing

Author:Peter Dicken

“It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.”

Stills Political Economy Example Remains China Communist Political Systems Market Economy Retaining

Book:Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy

Source: Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy

“The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.”

“I should focus on other important issues like people's livelihoods and the economy.”

People Should Important Economy Issues Focus Livelihood Important Issues

Author:Donald Tsang

“In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.”

“In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.”

Facts Economy Creation Property Cancer Currents Credit Mechanism Exaggeration Private Property Market Economy

Author:Maurice Allais

“Economy is the thief of time.”

Economy One Day Thieves

Author:Ethel Mumford

“He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.”

Should Littles Economy Too Much

Book:Resolves: divine, moral and political

Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political

“Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.”

Has Beens States Form United United States Economy Theory Trade Agreement Beneficial Manufacturing Pillars Free Trade Detrimental Trade Agreements United States Economy

Author:Dan Kildee

“The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.”

May Government Economy Props

Author:Andrew Ross Sorkin

“Economy and environment are the same thing. That is the rule of nature.”

Economy Environment

Author:Mollie Beattie

“One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.”

Ability Economy Tests Insult Earning Incidents Humanistic

Book:Who Owns the Future?

Source: Who Owns the Future?

“Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.”

Wells Said Lasts Turns Economy Mines Quarters Economist Disappoint

Author:Robert Orben

“What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.”

Economy Economic Capitalism Consumers Sovereignty Critique Market Economy

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“The single biggest stimulus to the economy are the unemployment benefits we're paying. These people go out and they spend the money. They go out and they have to get by to everything from paying their mortgage or buying food or just getting by. It has a significant impact on economic growth and the continuation of economic growth.”

People Growth Economy Economic Benefits Impact Significant Buying Unemployment Economic Growth Stimulus Mortgage Continuation Unemployment Benefits

Author:Joe Biden

“We need a president that is sitting down, getting Americans to work, getting this economy going. That is the single most important thing that the president of the United States does, is create a climate where job creators know that they're going to be able to risk their capital and have a chance to have a return on the investment. And it's never too late to start that.”

“The economy is very different in the world that we're living in. And I think Americans are looking for executive leadership that actually has some experience of creating jobs.”

Thinking World Different Jobs Economy Creating Executives Creating Jobs

Author:Rick Perry

“Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.”

“There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to encourage small business, to encourage ownership, to expand access to quality health care, to enhance opportunity by making higher education more affordable to American's young people, to have our children live in safe neighborhoods, drug-free, crime-free, and a safe and clean environment, first and foremost to provide for the national defense, to protect and defend the American people, and to have accountability for our budget and for our spending.”

“I come back to the science that is in it to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and climate change. It's about science, science, science and science, innovation, as we rebuild America, create jobs, invest in our people and turn this economy around.”

People Jobs America Turns Economy Innovation Climate Climate Change Oil Dependence Foreign Oil

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“We've got some fundamental choices to make about the kind of country we want to be. Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well, or are we going to build an economy where everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead?”

Want Wells Kind Country Hard Choices Chance Accepting Economy Hard Work Fundamentals Get Ahead

Author:Barack Obama

“The country wants the president and the Congress focused on jobs and the economy. Any regulation that the president promulgates that isn't focused on, I think, is a risk for him, and the same is true for Congress.”

Thinking Want Country Jobs President Economy Risk Congress Focused Regulation

Author:Mara Liasson

“If the Congress is going to spend its whole time hauling up regulators and bureaucrats and looking like they're focusing on tiny, trivial things, instead of jobs and the economy, it could be a problem for them.”

Ifs Whole Problem Jobs Economy Congress Tiny Bureaucrats Regulators Trivial Things

Author:Mara Liasson

“I think the fundamentals of the economy are finally in the electronic economy and they are strong are we have reason for great optimism.”

Thinking Reason Strong Economy Optimism Fundamentals

Author:George W. Bush

“I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get more credit than they deserve. They are just better at political discourse that we are.”

Years Happens Political Watches Economy Republican Deserve Good Things Democrat Credit Discourse Political Discourse

Author:George W. Bush

“Democrats in Washington predicted that tax cuts would not create jobs, would not increase wages, and would cause the federal deficit to explode. Well, the facts are in. The tax cuts have led to a strong economy. Real wages were on the rise, and deficit has been cut in half three years ahead of schedule.”

Years Wells Has Beens Real Facts Jobs Three Strong Causes Half Economy Cutting Taxes Increase Democrat Three Years Schedules Wages Deficit Tax Cuts Strong Economy

Author:George W. Bush

“Reversing structural problems in our economy that have been building up for two decades, that was gonna take time. It was gonna take more than a year. It was gonna take more than two years. It was gonna take more than one term. Probably takes more than one president.”

Years Has Beens Two Problem President Term Economy Building Decades Two Years Take Time Building Up

Author:Barack Obama

“Once you start thinking about growth of economy, it's hard to think about anything else.”

Thinking Hard Growth Economy

Author:Chris Hayes

“The [budget] deficit isn't the immediate problem for most people, the weak economy is.”

People Problem Economy Weak Budgets Deficit Budget Deficit

Author:Cynthia Tucker

“There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create a new set of rules and incentives to send it down a better track, but finally people in the first world are going to have to consume a whole lot less.”

People World Firsts Whole Reality Economy Economic Planets Fundamentals Track Tension Incentives

Author:Michael Pollan

“We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming.”

Ends Problem Economy Amount Fundamentals Consumers Not Sure Sheer Carbon Trading Consuming Greener

Author:Michael Pollan

“If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the economy, but writers just have to face up to the fact that there are some fundamental tensions between the economic order and the biological order.”

Ifs Facts Faces Order Growth Economy Economic Politician Fundamentals Green Tension Economic Growth Economic Order

Author:Michael Pollan

“American economy is tricky. If you stay in the game you're in a good position for the upswing. If you're not in the game you can't win.”

Ifs Games Winning Economy Position Tricky Can't Win American Economy

Author:Farrah Gray

“I`m going to work night and day to make sure that Americans get the tax relief that they need and deserve, and that our economy needs and deserves.”

Needs Night Economy Taxes Deserve Relief Going To Work

Author:Jay Carney

“It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.”

Needs Persons Energy Economy Creative Possibility Personality Amount Response Enormous Variety Denial Traits Richness Creative Energy Depriving

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.”

States Philosophy Differences Principles Economy Economic Socialism Communism Welfare Fascism Nazism Welfare State Communism And Fascism

Author:Jacob G. Hornberger

“No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with.... The existence of banks with single digit amounts of equity is a completely unhealthy existence -- that is not only a risk for the banks, but for all of us.”

Play Easy Existence Economy Risk Amount Equity Unhealthy Easy Money

Author:Anat R. Admati

“Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the goods of the world, even though these goods are not false or intrinsically unsatisfactory.... Desire shatters the economy of things; it disputes the tyranny of objects. IT longs for the great emptiness, which is beauty and love without limitation.”

World Desire Economy Objects And Love Tyranny Limitation Emptiness Goods Uniforms Disputes Insatiable Bland Beauty And Love

Book:The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth

Source: The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth

“We have won on the Arlov, Kursk, Belgorod, and Kharkov grounds. We won because the country was being defended not only by the army but by the entire Soviet people. The Socialist economy, Soviet political structure, and Marxist-Leninist ideology proved their unarguable excellence against the Fascist economy, Fascist political structure, and Fascist ideology of Germany.”

People Country Political Economy Army Structure Excellence Ideology Germany Soviet Socialist Fascists Marxist Socialist Economy

Author:Ivan Bagramyan

“Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever point of the globe he may be and whatever military power, territory, or economy he may possess.”

Ifs Needs May Enough Able Earth Faces Economy Military Territory Soviet Troops Globes Equipment Rockets Aggressors Military Power

Author:Sergey Biryuzov

“Technology policy - whether we should have one and what form such a policy should take - was a core issue of the 1992 presidential campaign, and in February 1993 the Clinton administration confirmed that fostering new technologies will be a critical part of its agenda for redirecting the American economy.”

“An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development.”

World Government Faces Challenges Economy Economic Development Cost Lows Producers Exploration Technological Innovative Korea Transforming Economic Power Technological Development

Author:Lewis M. Branscomb

“All American and Israeli goods and products should be boycotted in a way that undermines American and Israeli interests so as to act as deterrence to their war against Muslims and Islam that is being waged under the pretence of fighting terrorism. This boycott should become an overwhelming trend that makes these two states feel that their economies are in a real and actual danger.”

Way Feels Should Two War Real States Fighting Interest Economy Danger Products Islam Terrorism Goods Trends Overwhelming Israeli Pretense Boycott Fighting Terrorism Deterrence

Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

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