“The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?” PeopleKnowsPlayJobsPoliticalSufferingGamesCan DoClassEconomyTeacherMiddleRight NowWeakWorkersMiddle ClassPocketsConstructionVeteranCan Do SomethingConstruction WorkersPolitical Games Author:David Plouffe
“Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.” PeopleValuesGamesEconomyPopping Author:Jane McGonigal
“It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.” WholeGamesEconomyBallsHunger Author:Mandy Patinkin
“Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.” PeopleLooksWholeBigsGamesEconomyPiecesCrimeCriminalsInventionCorrections Author:Jerry Brown
“As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that poses a much greater challenge -- the retooling of the country's economy, society, and government necessary for the United States to perform effectively in the twenty-first century.” WantFirstsCountryStatesGovernmentPastGamesChallengesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyGreaterCenturyTwentiesCrisisDepthFinancialDisasterRecoveryShockMassiveChickensSteadyOddsPackagesCliffsRecessionsFinancial CrisisChasmsAusterityLooming Author:Fareed Zakaria
“My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.” TogetherGamesWealthPrinciplesEconomyProsperityZeroGlobal EconomyWorld EconomyGuiding PrinciplesZero Sum Game Author:Julia Gillard
“So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.” FirstsGamesEconomyBaseballGrandpaBaseball Games Author:Leigh Steinberg
“Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.” PeopleUseGamesEconomyCommunicateDevicesRecipesProcessingPlaying Games Author:Steve Case
“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.” IfsGamesWinningEconomyPositionTrickyCan't WinAmerican Economy Author:Farrah Gray
“Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.” WorldBookRealPoliticalValuesGamesSocialEconomyIssuesPlayerEconomicInternetLaborInnovationProfoundChineseFraudSurprisingInflationEmergenceSyntheticEconomic IssuesSweatshops Author:Tim Harford
“We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?” KnowsGamesEconomyEnjoymentShiftingDevelopers Author:Jesse Schell
“The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.” IfsWayTryingYearsBelieveMeanLongGamesTermForgetEconomyWeekFineMonthsDon't BelieveInvestingLong TermBuyingInvestorsFeesAmerican EconomyBuying Stocks Author:Warren Buffett
“Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who lost this game; now it is the planet.” RealEnoughRunningPastGamesLostPoorEconomyPlanetsCapitalismInfiniteNow And ThenIrrelevantLureInsistingHaresGreyhounds Book:A Short History Of Progress Source: A Short History Of Progress
“If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.” IfsLastsGamesEconomyBuildingSeriousStandardsPicksRaisesHigh StandardsQuality Education Author:Barack Obama
“Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful.” NeedsTodayGamesWealthLevelsPowerfulEconomyEconomicBottomInequalityRigged Author:Bernie Sanders