Another Quote by Barbara Castle

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

— Barbara Tuchman

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.

— John Bracken

I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and…

— Milton Friedman

If we looked in the world of 1945 and looked at the map of capitalist economies and democratic polities, they were the rare exception,…

— Ashraf Ghani

Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at…

— Ralph Raico

“They challenged the widely accepted post–World War II consensus that an activist government was a force for public good. Instead, they argued for “limited…

— Jane Mayer

These are national problems that require national solutions.

— Thomas Menino

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

— Ludwig von Mises

What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that doesn't have…

— James C. Scott

If you look at government policy generally, what government tries to do in all instances is to make sure that we take care of…

— Thabo Mbeki

We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the…

— Matthew Crawford

As John Maynard Keynes taught us in the 1930s, in such situations, government is the only entity with both the motive and the ability…

— Robert H. Frank