Back Quote by Frances O'Grady

“Economists are quick to speak of ‘market failure’, and rightly so, but a greater threat comes from ‘government failure‘. Because it is a monopoly,…

— Matt Ridley

If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.

— David Wessel

The government needs to work to improve how markets perform.

— Luis Videgaray Caso

“government can't do everything. That there are times where it can hit at market forces—that we've got to strike the right balance between free…

— David Blum

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we…

— Angela Merkel

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would…

— Thomas Sowell

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will…

— Murray Rothbard

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring…

— Zygmunt Bauman

The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well and therefore…

— Murray Rothbard

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

People are yearning for a politics that tells it straight: that being in government is difficult, that there are tough decisions that we have…

— Hilary Benn

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

— Alex Kozinski