Better off Quote by David Schmidtz

A society is not a market. It is a political community.

— Michael Ignatieff

A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of…

— Michael Sandel

Over the past three decades, markets and market thinking have been reaching into spheres of life traditionally governed by non-market norms. As a result,…

— Michael Sandel

It is true that a competitive market is not the whole of society. A great deal depends on the qualities of the population and…

— Milton Friedman

The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his…

— Ludwig von Mises

Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your…

— Noam Chomsky

Yes to market economy, no to market society.

— Lionel Jospin

Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual exchange of…

— Ludwig von Mises

The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of his fellow-men.…

— Ludwig von Mises

The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which…

— Lee R. Raymond

The market is like the police: of course you need it, but if it becomes the central organizing principle of your culture then you're…

— Philip E. Agre

The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.

— Rupert Murdoch