“This points to a nagging and important question about free-market ideologues: Are they ‘true believers’, driven by ideology and faith that free… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“The Apprentice delivered the central sales pitch of free-market theory, telling viewers that by unleashing your most selfish and ruthless side, you… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
A dollar vigilante is a free market individual who protests the government monopoly and financial policies, such as fractional reserve banking and… — Jeff Berwick Copy Share Image
Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
“The verdict of history seems to be that free-market capitalism is the globally optimal way to cooperate for economic efficiency; perhaps, in… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
Even Milton Friedman - doyen of radical free market thought - was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
There are markets extending from Mali, Indonesia, way outside the purview of any one government which operated under civil laws, so contracts… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully… — Steve Stivers Copy Share Image
Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the most important features of our economic resources is their scarcity: land, labor, and capital goods factors are all scarce,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better… — John Katzman Copy Share Image
I think our basic principle that this is a free market system and that that has worked for us, that it creates… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Dictatorships can exist with free markets - not that China is really a free market - especially in poor countries where the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our… — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
As Ludwig von Mises conclusively demonstrated in 1912, money does not and cannot originate by order of the State or by some… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
These people say free markets are the way to go, but wink, wink, the markets aren't really free. They're just a protectionist… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course.… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Surprisingly one of the forces for secularisation was Christianity itself. As soon as it accepted the idea of a contrary opinion, the… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Because every exchange is always a relationship, to get the most while giving the least is unjust, unethical, antisocial, abusive, perhaps 'evil.'… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
