“How long will the Gilgamesh Project – the quest for immortality – take to complete? A hundred years? Five hundred years? A… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The… — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
“But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
There are several states that move from Karl Marx-like policies to Adam Smith-like policies and back again in a weekend. So for… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of… — Russ Roberts Copy Share Image
There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
Never was it [Capitalism] imposed on life as a system, or at all. It grew out of life, not all at once… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
“Over the last two decades, elites in even many formerly socialist countries came to uphold an ideal of cosmopolitan liberalism: the universal… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“As Adam Smith argued more than two centuries ago, when individuals freely pursue their own self-interests—presumably, even their most trivial desires—the aggregate… — Paul Roberts Copy Share Image
The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
“Adam Smith FRSE (baptised June 5, 1723 O.S. / June 16 N.S. – July 17, 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth;… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“As the brilliant economist-educator Russell Roberts points out, chroniclers of the cult of celebrity have an extensive pedigree. Writing in The Theory… — Jonathan Haskel Copy Share Image
. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month—the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Our gain from foreign trade is what we import. Exports are the price we pay to get imports. As Adam Smith saw… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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