“Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.” NeedsHumansCountryStatesPoliticalEconomyRightsModernDemocraticProfoundHuman RightsProtectionOpeningOur CountryReformIdeologicalOpening UpPluralismMixed Economy Author:Andrei Sakharov
“We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.” WorldMadeIdeasEconomyRightsSafeIntellectualPropertyProtectionAdoptedInnovativeProperty RightsPatentsIntellectual Property Author:Jeffrey Sachs
“If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.” IfsWorldIdeasEconomyCuttingIncreaseInfiniteProtectionProductivityControlledNew IdeasIncentives Author:Manmohan Singh
“Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.” IfsWellsCountryJobsEconomyEnvironmentEnvironmentalInternationalProtectionParticipationEmissionsEnvironmental Protection Author:Fred Upton
“Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the worlds resources will be negotiated.” WorldNextEconomyPolicyResourcesClimateEnvironmentalProtectionOfficialsEconomistDistributionSummitEnvironmental ProtectionCancun Author:Ottmar Edenhofer
“I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings.” WorldWritingBelieveMayHas BeensBookDoneYoungPoliticalI BelieveCommunityPrinciplesEconomyProtectionHarmPassagesFavourMillsPolitical Economy Author:Richard Cobden
“The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.” HumansDoeWisdomPoliticsLevelsEconomyOur LivesPropertyProtectionIntimateLiberalismEfficiencyPrivate PropertyHuman FreedomMarket Efficiency Author:Richard Allen Epstein
“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.” WorldHumansPersonsWarCareDiesChallengesHuman BeingsPovertyMillionsEconomyDevelopmentWeaponsResourcesGreenClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangeIncludingProductionsAvailableExtremesProtectionHumanitarianMedicalPursueBudgetsReliefAddressesGet AwayNegotiationAdaptationImperativesSurveillanceDisarmamentPreventionEnvironmental ProtectionMalnutritionMedical CareGood FaithPandemicsExtreme PovertyGreen Economy Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.” WisdomSeemsGovernmentLawPoliticalFoundPoliticsInterestEconomyMajorityPropertyProtectionLiberalismDistributionAlienationTransmissionPolitical Wisdom Book:Speeches and Forensic Arguments Source: Speeches and Forensic Arguments
“For a small open economy such as Cyprus, the euro adoption provides protection against international financial turmoil, which often has a disproportionate effect on smaller economies.” EconomyFinancialInternationalProtectionAdoptionTurmoilEuroCyprus Author:Jean-Claude Trichet