Century Quote by Ayn Rand

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

— Ayn Rand

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

— Ayn Rand

The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors.

— Anthony Giddens

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and…

— Ludwig von Mises

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability…

— Will Durant

Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas, gray areas…

— Loretta Napoleoni

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

— Paul Ryan

The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

— Ray Dalio

When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

— Confucius

“China has undergone an enormous transformation. But because the political system remains unchanged, the great changes in the economic and social sphere have resulted…

— Yang Jisheng

“No two societies create the same institutions; they will have distinct customs, different systems of property rights, and different ways of dividing a killed…

— Daron Acemoğlu