That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Adam Smith himself made the analogy of the economy as a watch or a clock that once set in motion continues on… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations was in large part a critique of imperialism. We often associate opposition to imperialism with Marxism and… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“No, the art of government was to curb and guide men’s greedy appetites into useful courses, so that, as the Scottish economist… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, Adam Smith-like, individuals would recognize what they need to do in their own self-interest, and they will make… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“As Adam Smith put it centuries ago: “the emotion which we feel for the misery of others… is by no means confined… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Adam Smith expanded on this notion by saying that a person pursing his own selfish interests may be “led by an invisible… — Sean Masaki Flynn Copy Share Image
“it is thought to be somehow related to Adam Smith’s invisible hand, the workings of which are both overstated and mysterious.” — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
Let's take Adam Smith, the patron-saint of capitalism, what did he think? He thought the main human instinct was sympathy. In fact,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my book, 'The Big Three in Economics,' I found that the press has frequently and prematurely written the obituary of Adam… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“Like the Founders, the Conservative also recognizes in society a harmony of interests, as Adam Smith put it, and rules of cooperation… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
If you go back to Adam Smith, you find the idea that markets and market forces operate as an invisible hand. This… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“It was not for nothing that Adam Smith wrote that “people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
“In such a wild, uncharted place the book of God was vital, for it nourished their spirit and laid boundaries for their… — James Webb Copy Share Image
Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“They failed to appreciate how the network would funnel the energies of the people into a centrally administered, tightly monitored information system… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“The American Works Progress (later Projects) Administration, founded in 1935 to provide jobs for “employable workers” during the Great Depression, established the… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
“The mindset of antiquity lacked economic science and sociological theory. The ancients did rather well with political narrative, although, except for Thucydides,… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work"… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the… — Francois Quesnay Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“In reality high profits tend much more to raise the price of (a piece of) work than high wages. (quoting Adam Smith… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“I find it ironic that liberals generally embrace Darwin and reject “intelligent design” as the explanation for design and adaptation in the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The most distinguished advocate and the most distinguished critic of modern captialism were in agreement on one essential point: the job makes… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
