Political Economy Quotes

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We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.

Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.

[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he largely enacted from the bench.

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.