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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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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you…
— Bill Bryson
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The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's…
— Gaylord Nelson
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Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true…
— Arie de Geus
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Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation
— Francis Fukuyama
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The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious…
— Douglass North
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Interest rates are going to go up because employment is going to go up. If employment goes up, then our apartments get…
— Sam Zell
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If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced…
— Gordon Brown
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Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within…
— John F. Kennedy
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You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues … You know that the first order…
— Unknown Author
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It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to…
— Pope Pius XI
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I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.
— Gale Norton
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it…
— Barry Commoner
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