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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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Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems.…
— Bob Beauprez
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There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their…
— David Cameron
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Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.
— Art Hoppe
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I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it),…
— Amartya Sen
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Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.
— Milton Friedman
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Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems
— Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
— Billy Crystal
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If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped…
— Ernest Holmes
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Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.
— Lucian Freud
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Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.
— Unknown Author
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We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of…
— Michael Foot
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