Abiding Quote by David Graeber

“A free-market system is one in which economic production and consumption are determined by the free choices of individuals rather than governments, and this…

— Barry Asmus

The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion…

— Tony Benn

It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

— Robert L. Bradley, Jr

It seems to me obviously axiomatic that markets are not magical, that they're organised in a range of regulated entities created by men. We…

— John Lanchester

“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

Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we…

— Anonymous

We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such…

— Ludwig von Mises

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

— Ludwig von Mises

“So, when free-market economists say that a certain regulation should not be introduced because it would restrict the ‘freedom’ of a certain market, they…

— Ha-Joon Chang

What makes the existence and the evolution of society possible is precisely the fact that peaceful cooperation under the social division of labor in…

— Ludwig von Mises

The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So…

— Randy Neugebauer