Failure Quote by Colin Watson

If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of…

— John Maynard Keynes

“No market economy can function properly without the support of legal and moral sanctions, designed to hold individual agents to their bargains, and to…

— Roger Scruton

“As the authors of the studies point out, these effects suggest that economics education may have serious consequences for students’ attitudes towards greed.”

— Vaddhaka Linn

If universities are going to behave like a cartel, government must be assertive in standing up for consumers.

— Nick Boles

Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or…

— James F. Cooper

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be…

— Anonymous

In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special…

— William Jennings Bryan

“Politicians have often declared that unbridled competition among financial intermediaries promotes failures that will harm the public. Although the evidence that competition does this…

— Frederic Mishkin Mishkin Frederic

As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation.

— Loretta Napoleoni

The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which…

— James Madison

“Market forces, not political majorities, will compel societies to reconfigure themselves in ways that public opinion will neither comprehend nor welcome.”

— James Dale Davidson