Center stage Quote by James M. Buchanan

Markets are the best way to allocate resources.

— George W. Bush

“Market without competition impedes its' dynamics.”

— Toba Beta

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

— Jeremy Grantham

“An economics of systems only-an economics of markets but not of men-is fatally flawed.”

— George Gilder

“Today the topic is not that of survival, but of the maintenance of a workable economic system in societies which are in a market…

— Isabel Gonzalez Turmo

“The economic metaphor came to be applied to every aspect of modern life, especially the areas where it simply didn't belong. In fields such…

— John Lanchester

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

— Niall Ferguson

“science of economics should focus on the best use of scarce means to satisfy social ends.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

“The core premise of economic theory is that people choose by optimizing.”

— Richard H. Thaler

Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of…

— Karl Polanyi

“blue ocean strategy is a theory of market creation”

— W. Chan Kim

“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