Investing Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

— Noam Chomsky

The point of advertising is to destroy markets.

— Noam Chomsky

A big producer can survive price fluctuations on the world market. A small farmer can't.

— Noam Chomsky

Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.

— Noam Chomsky

In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing…

— Noam Chomsky

The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for…

— Noam Chomsky

“The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on…

— Noam Chomsky

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's…

— Noam Chomsky

You also have to get beyond that to dismantle the system of production for profit rather than production for use. That means…

— Noam Chomsky

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

— Noam Chomsky

Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free…

— Noam Chomsky

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have…

— Noam Chomsky

If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each…

— Noam Chomsky

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding…

— Noam Chomsky

Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only…

— Noam Chomsky

The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics,…

— Noam Chomsky

The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor,…

— Noam Chomsky

There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules…

— Noam Chomsky

Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with…

— Noam Chomsky

Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the…

— Noam Chomsky

If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be…

— Noam Chomsky

The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,…

— Noam Chomsky

There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would…

— Noam Chomsky

In a capitalist system, there's a principle that if you invest, especially in a long-term risky investment, if something comes out of…

— Noam Chomsky

In the mid to late nineteenth century, the gun manufacturers recognized that they had a limited market. Remember that this is a…

— Noam Chomsky

The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,…

— Noam Chomsky

The obvious one, in a market system, in a really functioning one, whoever's making the decisions doesn't pay attention to what are…

— Noam Chomsky

“The reasoning throughout is straightforward, and is in full accord with what Bush calls “new thinking in the law of war,” which…

— Noam Chomsky

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

— Noam Chomsky

The main selling appeal of NAFTA to US corporations is that it gives them an advantage in the North American market over…

— Noam Chomsky

The market is regarded as democratic because everybody has a vote. Of course, some have more votes than others because your votes…

— Noam Chomsky

Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the…

— Noam Chomsky

“[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long…

— Noam Chomsky

The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the…

— Noam Chomsky

In our society, real power does not happen to lie in the political system, it lies in the private economy: that’s where…

— Noam Chomsky

Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital…

— Noam Chomsky