Wealth Quote by Daron Acemoğlu

“But history tells us that monopolies that are truly benevolent and effective are rare.”

— Michael E. Porter

“The political power had intervened, and such was its necessary effect. The Western farmers, who willingly took what appeared to be the advantage of…

— Isabel Paterson

“Markets are free when human beings have equal opportunities to influence the production and trade of desirable goods and services... Some people attain market…

— Martin Adams

“Let us henceforth make war on all monopolies—whether corporate or union. The enemy of freedom is unrestrained power, and the champions of freedom will…

— Barry M. Goldwater

“The greed of a single person must never be allowed to subvert the function of government so that one person’s profit can be achieved…

— Rocco Leonard Martino

“The economists exploded the old tenets: that it is unfair and unjust to outdo a competitor by producing better and cheaper goods; that it…

— Ludwig von Mises

“The flood of cheap manufactures, for which the people have no need,destroys their industries. They become dependent on this trade and the demand for…

— Barry Unsworth

Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“If you permit unprincipled and ambitious men to monopolize the soil, they will become masters of the country in the certain order of cause…

— Howard Zinn

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic…

— Henry A. Wallace

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Instead of profound redistributions of power, the new networks are captured by new monopolies, each more powerful and sophisticated than the one before it.”

— Franklin Foer