- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic System Quotes
These economic system quotes debate growth, fairness, and trust, from concerns about concentrated benefit to defenses of capitalism's record on poverty.
These economic system quotes weigh who actually benefits from growth against the security an existing structure provides. For a broader take on progress, our Better quotes explore a related theme.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that this universal aspect of human nature persists no matter what economic system is in place; it merely expresses itself in different forms.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it safe and sane to only have one political and economic system by which everyone in the world can live? Or can we explore and share? God never made one of anything.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production.
- Excluding
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are very, very thoughtful about once an economic system creates maldistribution of wealth, thinking about how we redistribute it, but we need to pay attention to why that system is excluding people to create that maldistribution in the first place.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.
- Big Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
- Big Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism has proved its ability to adapt: at a time when so many younger people quite legitimately feel that the economic system doesn't work for them, big business appealing to their sense of idealism is a savvy move.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
What do we value more: an economic system which privileges profit above all other considerations, or the continued existence of human civilisation as we recognise it? A reckoning is coming.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an awful thing to be aware of your own corruption. I think a lot of people are bound by the particular economic system we work in to serve companies and masters who aren't really telling people what they're doing.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020