It is hard to see how an economy can function if contracts are not upheld.

While roads do plenty of good - how would societies and economies function without them?

It's fashionable to attack the banks but the economy doesn't function without them.

The world's economies could no longer function without the networks.

But they don't cause problems, he said, and the American economy could never function without them.

New York City's economy could not function without the subways.

This hidden economy functions as productively as any in the West.

One reason governments exist is to insure that economies function for the benefit of people, and not the other way around.

Our global economy now functions primarily to produce profit for large corporations.

We hear claims that immigrants are somehow bad for the economy, even though this economy could not function without them.