The key reason executives are paid so much now is that they appoint the members of the corporate board that determines their… — Paul Krugman 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
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
The invisible hand is not perfect. Indeed, the invisible hand is a little bit arthritic ... I'm a believer in free markets,… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who… — Denise Caruso 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
That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings. — Amitava Kumar 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
A few months ago people were talking about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Now the only hope is… — Jeffrey Garten Copy Share Image
“Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and… — Karl Marx 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
When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check. — Kim Stanley Robinson 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
This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender,… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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