Economics Quote by Elizabeth S. Anderson

“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

“political parties representing rival bourgeois factions create the illusion of choice but unite to repress the working class.”

— Ken Follett

“This economy is based upon consumption, which ultimately serves, not the ordinary consumers, but a tiny class of excessively wealthy people for whose further…

— Wendell Berry

“From this standpoint, the role of the market, as already noted, is that it permits unanimity without conformity; that it is a system of…

— Milton Friedman

It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in…

— Naomi Klein

“As with democratic politics, the market is a mass of individuals making discrete choices within a framework shaped by larger forces, over which they…

— Charles J. Chaput

It's never been clearer that unrestrained market forces do not produce the kind of societies we aspire to - economically stable and socially inclusive,…

— Sharan Burrow

But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what…

— Charles Koch

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

— James Dale Davidson

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

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

“Political bargaining and political entrepreneurship can be seen naked, stripped of the flattering wardrobe of democracy, rule of law and state building.”

— Alex de Waal