Connected Quote by Hjalmar Schacht

The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent…

— Ludwig von Mises

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product…

— Henry Charles Carey

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

“According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are…

— Adam Smith

The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people.…

— Ludwig von Mises

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the…

— Hjalmar Schacht

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by…

— Thomas Malthus

“Neoliberalism makes citizens into consumers. The freedom of the citizen yields to the passivity of the consumer. As consumers, today’s voters have no real…

— Byung-Chul Han

“This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

“All varieties of the producers' policy are advocated on the ground of their alleged ability to raise the party members' standard of living. Protectionism…

— Ludwig Von Mises

“Consumers are not loyal to cheap commodities. They crave the unique, the remarkable, and the human.”

— Seth Godin

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due…

— Henry Charles Carey