If you invest all your energy in economics, world commerce, parliamentarianism, military engagements, power and power politics, -if you take the quantum of intelligence, seriousness, will, and self-overcoming that you embody and expend it all in this one direction, there there won't be any left for the other direction. Culture and the state - let us be honest with ourselves - these are adversaries.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: economics culture germany
The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.
Jeffrey D. SachsTags: money politics wealth economics poverty unjust
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTags: philosophy economics interesting hegel economics-philosophy innovative
Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.
Rachel MaddowTags: politics economics united-states social-security ponzi-schemes
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.
Rose Wilder LaneTags: politics wealth freedom ethics philosophy economics productivity ownership individual-rights
Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.
Robert W. CoxTags: morality god religion atheism economics monopoly
Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con tricks - they're not even necessarily against our direct interests, although sometimes they can be - but they are hacks for the human mind, ways of manipulating us into particular decisions we otherwise might not make. They are also, in a way, deliberate underminings of the core principle of the free market, which derives its legitimacy from the idea that informed self-interest on aggregate sets appropriate prices for items. The key word is 'informed'; the point of behavioural economics - or rather, of its somewhat buccaneering corporate applications - is to skew our perception of the purchase to the advantage of the company. The overall consequence of that is to tilt the construction of our society away from what it should be if we were making the rational decisions classical economics imagines we would, and towards something else.
Nick HarkawayTags: systems power choice society capitalism economics information corporations
Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.
Christopher CaudwellTags: truth art poetry beauty economics aesthetic
There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.
Peter J. BoettkeThe experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.
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