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Economies typically do not function well in hyperinflation. The real value of government debt might disappear, but the economy is likely to disappear with it. -- Eugene Fama
Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks. -- Geoff Mulgan
It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity. -- Kevin Rudd
Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo. -- Jamie Dimon
Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion. -- Amory Lovins
Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. -- Jane Jacobs
Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages. -- Robert Reich
So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies. -- John Mason Brown
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. -- James Tobin
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future. -- Heather Brooke
Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow's technological world. -- Gordon Smith
Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies. -- Charles B. Rangel
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever. -- William J. Clinton
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Do policy makers have the knowledge and ability to improve macroeconomic outcomes rather than make matters worse? Yes. -- Janet Yellen
By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help. -- Michael Specter
Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy. -- John W. Snow
Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employees are not going to disappear. In fact, many of them are getting larger because they can benefit from economies of scale. -- Daniel H. Pink
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families. -- Melissa Bean
New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture. -- Deepak Chopra
Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people. -- Chris Abani
Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again. -- Evo Morales
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff. -- Alan Greenspan
Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris. -- George Ayittey
There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions. -- Elon Musk
If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.' -- Adam Hamilton
If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed. -- Manmohan Singh
In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better. -- Jeffrey Sachs
We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism. -- Stephen Harper
Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live. -- Shimon Peres
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. -- Tim Jackson
The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated. -- Tina Brown
When women thrive, economies thrive. -- Hillary Clinton
When women do better, economies do better. -- Christine Lagarde
Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do. -- Geoff Mulgan
Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies. -- Jon Ronson
Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies. -- Joseph Stiglitz
The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies. -- Timothy Garton Ash
Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies. -- Jamie Dimon
There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising. -- Stephen King
Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies. -- Jean Charest
Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice. -- Wendell Berry
Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them. -- Jane McGonigal
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do. -- Melinda Gates
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not, -- Janet Yellen
Cleaner, more sustainable energy is possible and can transform our lives, our economies, and our planet. -- Gisele Bundchen
We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention. -- Kenneth Fisher
People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Global stocks bottomed in June 1921, but global economies didn't hit bottom for fully two more years. -- Kenneth Fisher
Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter -- Lester Thurow
I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently. -- Shai Agassi
Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better. -- Christine Lagarde
In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible. -- Barack Obama
Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state. -- David Miliband
The biggest threat to advanced economies is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth. -- Carmen Reinhart
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel. -- Dan Lipinski
Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined. -- Barack Obama
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. -- William Feather
More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens. -- Zac Goldsmith
The economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficient -- David Cameron
The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets. -- Mark Zandi
We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy. -- Gale Norton
A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. -- Naomi Klein
Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards. -- Ivan Glasenberg
I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting. -- Lakshmi
Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia? -- Jack Welch
A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies. -- Robert Gilpin
The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies. -- Mohamed El-Erian
The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all. -- John Mearsheimer
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. -- Trevor Paglen
I also believe that most of the emerging economies have a fairly large amount of foreign exchange reserves, relative to 10 years ago. -- Jamie Dimon
The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies. -- Michelle Bachelet
Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners. -- Frans Lanting
Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. Id much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners. -- Frans Lanting
I think I've always believed in Ronald Reagan's adage, "Peace through Strength." Let's grow stronger on a transatlantic basis in our economies. -- Mike Pence
Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates. -- Alex Berenson
Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world. -- Mark Mobius
It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows. -- Hillary Clinton
Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008. -- Bill Gross
We need to find a balance between protecting our local economies while pursuing the longer-term goal of producing clean, affordable and reliable power. -- Ann Kirkpatrick
I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment. -- Christine Lagarde
You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked. -- Dan Lipinski
Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products. -- Robert Higgs
Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children -- Christopher Wills
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously. -- Janet Yellen
I repeat that, in my opinion, the European Commission and the leading European economies are acting very pragmatically and are on the right path. -- Vladimir Putin
As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy. -- Craig Stevens
The challenges some European economies have are such that it makes it very difficult for them. You have to go where the growth is. -- Martin Sorrell
Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives. -- Jamais Cascio
In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property. -- Maurice Allais
While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity. -- Alan Greenspan
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. -- Lawrence Summers
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives. -- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default. -- Mohamed El-Erian
When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve. -- Madeleine Albright
If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight. -- Laurie Penny
This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize. -- Timothy Geithner
Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the world's richest nations. -- Russell Kirk
Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed. -- Salvador Dali
I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed. -- Salvador Dali
The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed. -- Vandana Shiva
You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it. -- Mukesh Ambani
Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power. -- Ian Bremmer
Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America. -- David Cameron
We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis. -- Paul Krugman
If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesuswill abandon him with their lives. -- Brandon Andress
Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power. -- Stephanie Mills
Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more. -- Oliver DeMille
To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question. -- Stephen S. Roach
In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world. -- Paul Ryan
When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money. -- Naomi Wolf
The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles. -- Vladimir Putin

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