Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers. — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central… — Gita Gopinath Copy Share Image
Deployment of broadband may be hampered by market failures in rural and remote areas. In such cases, well targeted state aid may… — Neelie Kroes Copy Share Image
Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
My citizen activism is a direct outgrowth of a classical and fiscally conservative training in economics at Harvard. It is a perspective… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there:… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
If we want growth today to be more innovation-driven, more inclusive and more sustainable, then we need a more active state, not… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action,… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market… — Pankaj Ghemawat Copy Share Image
Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Today, states don't need to directly control the means of production to control every aspect of the lives of individuals. With tools… — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
“Economists are quick to speak of ‘market failure’, and rightly so, but a greater threat comes from ‘government failure‘. Because it is… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want… — Walter E. Williams 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
I believe in market economics. But to paraphrase Churchill - who said this about democracy and political regimes - a market economy… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“The typical undergraduate microeconomics textbook describes cases where markets are unlikely to produce efficient outcomes. These textbooks often claim that, in principle,… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market… — Gavyn Davies 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
