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
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
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
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
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
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
People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“In sum, capitalism is a thing of beauty. It’s not the same as long ago when heredity and physical strength determined who… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“The free market system of capitalism enhances freedom in three ways. Traditionally freedom of exchange has been seen as a basic form… — Cudd/Holmstrom Copy Share Image
“The Italian neofascists were learning from the U.S. reactionaries how to achieve fascism's class goals within the confines of quasi-democratic forms: use… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“Recognizing that the boundaries of the market are ambiguous and cannot be determined in an objective way lets us realize that economics… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
“Every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for. Try to imagine what it would cost… — Cory Doctorow 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
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
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
One of the reasons the United States has actually been reducing its emissions in recent years is actually that there's been a… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to… — Ron Bloom Copy Share Image
Repealing drug laws would remove the risks involved with producing and distributing drugs, bringing 'street prices' crashing down (it's estimated that a… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could… — Leonard Read 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
A fact rarely suspected, let alone understood, is that businessmen are by no means the chief beneficiaries of the free market, private… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
This is, after all, the country that gave the world the rule of law, parliamentary democracy, the right to own property, the… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The free market and regulatory reforms enacted by a Republican-led Congress and President Trump have resulted in a blue-collar recovery, breathing life… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I think on the efficiency level, not only the distribution level, capitalism is a flawed system. It probably has the same virtues… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
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