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I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research.…

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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…
Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other…
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
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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Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive. — Robert Carlyle
Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. — James A. Garfield
...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off… — Andrew Revkin
For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,… — Harry A. Blackmun
Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged.… — Ann Althouse
Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others. — Abraham Zaleznik
Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite… — Unknown Author
The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice. — Leon Panetta
I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This,… — Charles Darwin
The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush… — Eban Goodstein

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