There is nothing new about the sudden enthusiasm for aggressive government intervention during a health crisis. Throughout history, pandemics have led to… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We need better options for securing the Internet. Instead of looking primarily for top-down government intervention, we can enlist the operators and… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In such processes the economic system's reactions to a movement of the economy amplify the movement--inflation feeds upon inflation and debt-deflation feeds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both Republicans and Democrats championed a structure that allowed the 'application layer' of Internet architecture to be free from government intervention, apart… — Michael O'Rielly Copy Share Image
The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
I think the Scandinavian health systems are better when it comes to preventative care than the German system, because in the Scandinavian… — Karl Lauterbach Copy Share Image
“The typical undergraduate microeconomics textbook describes cases where markets are unlikely to produce efficient outcomes. These textbooks often claim that, in principle,… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
In a world dependent on international trade and commerce, and staggering under a heavy load of international debt, no policy is more… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
“The American Dream is to not have to work, so with unemployment at record levels, you’d think more people would be excited… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
After Jessica Mitford published 'The American Way of Death' in 1963, to expose the abuses in the funeral industry, a groundswell of… — Perianne Boring Copy Share Image
Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor.… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Historically, it has required a combination of favorable employment trends and active government intervention to lower the percentage of people in poverty… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to… — Milton Friedman 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
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
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