The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
Let me put it very forcefully: No large economy has ever recovered from an economic downturn through austerity. It's not going to happen in the United States, and it's not going to happen in Europe.
A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order.
The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
The economic costs, the financial costs, the job losses, the income losses, the fiscal costs of bailing out financial system are becoming larger and larger.
By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.
Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.
The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
Beijing is trying to split the baby between simultaneously liberalizing the economy and maintaining economic stability, but those two factors are increasingly mutually exclusive.
While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth, we become complicit in - or, at the very least, recognize the extent to which we, too, are beneficiaries of - an economic system we routinely deplore.
I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.
Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.
The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.
