Quote by Edward Luce Download Open image ““M + D = C, Monopoly plus Discretion equals Corruption”” — Edward Luce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“purportedly free market, corrupt officials and state-owned companies looking to leverage their monopoly positions into profits.” — Bill Hayton Copy Share Image
“Being absolute, and maintained by police force, a Government monopoly need not please its customers.” — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“The bigger the corporation, the bigger the corruption. The more invisible the corporation, the more malicious it is.” — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
“Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival: monopoly profits.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed. — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of the initiation… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers. — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Corruption is not a moral problem, it is a distribution system and a way of amassing power.” — Lisa Margonelli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Davos has become the emblem of a global elite that has lost its ability to listen.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“By any numerical measure, humanity is becoming rapidly less poor. But between half and two-thirds of people in the West have been treading water… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Cowen detects conformism even in the liveliest Silicon Valley companies. Most of its denizens wear some variation on the casual hipster uniform and all… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no monopoly on… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Almost half of Americans would be unable to pay a $400 medical emergency bill without going into debt.67” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“In the US, the more liberal a city’s politics, the higher the rate of inequality.45” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“With chisels and pickaxes we made our tiny contributions to this orgy of historic vandalism.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“the Toil Index – the number of working hours it takes a median worker to pay the median rent in one of America’s big… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Today’s equivalent is probably ‘get an engineering degree’, but it will not necessarily be as lucrative. A third of Americans who graduated in STEM… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Shortly afterwards Addis Ababa launched a crackdown on its opponents that resulted in hundreds of deaths. If America’s president was in two minds about… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Émile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, said that when societies hit a civilisational break the suicide rate soars.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
