Balance Quote by Ha-Joon Chang

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without…

— Peter L. Berger

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence,…

— Douglas Massey

If markets are leading us in directions that we, as a democratic society, decide are not compatible with our vision of liberty or democracy,…

— Lina Khan

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you…

— Peter L. Berger

The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power to force…

— Ludwig von Mises

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

— Thomas Piketty

It is not true at all that a free market will ensure a democracy. It doesn't. There must be a balance between a free…

— Mahathir Mohamad

We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.

— Anker Jørgensen

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are…

— Thomas Piketty

We need to take a close look at the relationship between the economic system of Capitalism and the political system of Democracy. A democracy…

— Philip Kotler

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

— Charles Wheelan

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

— Benjamin Barber