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When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been…
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Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other…
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My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
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The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
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A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
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Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents...
— Anthony Gregory
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If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not…
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations.…
— Dixie Lee Ray
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Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize…
— Manmohan Singh
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Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.
— Michael Bloomberg
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Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.
— Bill Bonner
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Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important,…
— Milton Friedman
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My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in…
— John Grierson
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Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or…
— Thomas Sowell
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Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has…
— Jeremy Grantham
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Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all…
— Virginia Postrel
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