Severn Cullis-Suzuki Quotes

… governments must serve capitalism by establishing and maintain a framework which enables capitalism to develop. It can induce it to grow, but cannot command it to do so.

The United States believes that the greatest contribution we can make to world prosperity is the continued advocacy of the magic of the market place.

I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at the heart of our free-enterprise system.

The degree to which society creates wealth, I think, is largely determined by government and financial systems.

Economics runs the world.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.

There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough.

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.

Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide.

The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.

In this day and age, a big economy – a modern economy – just cannot be managed from the top.

Modernization is found in markets.

There is no way out of playing by the rules of the international economy if you wish to be a part of it.

Our economy, in order to grow, needs people to spend.

Economics is a very dangerous science