Adam Smith Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning… — Robert Heilbroner
The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments.… — Arianna Huffington
Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest… — George Stigler
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill,… — Chris Hedges
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity,… — Noam Chomsky
On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Like Marxism,… — Michael Lind
We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous. — Noam Chomsky
Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging… — Francois Quesnay
As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of… — Pierre Trudeau
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its… — Nelson Mandela
When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. — P.J. O'Rourke
But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments… — Paul Ormerod
I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy. — Sam Wyly
From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and punishments,… — George Gilder
Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of what really makes… — Russ Roberts
The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets. — Jon Meacham
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it… — Warren Buffett
I am a believer in Adam Smith, who says that if you look at something that really contributes value to society, and you can deliver… — David Cheriton
I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam… — James D. Watson

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