Buyers Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and demand in…

— Thomas Sowell

We think of prices as simply the notation of how much we must pay for things. But the price system accomplishes far more than…

— Sheldon Richman

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation…

— Anatoly Chubais

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

— Seth Godin

To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies…

— Alex Berenson

The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve. [...] Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy.…

— Ilana Mercer

“Fundamentally, in a system in which the knowledge of the relevant facts is dispersed among many people, prices can act to coordinate the separate…

— Friedrich Hayek

“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit…

— Thomas Sowell

To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase…

— Calvin Coolidge

By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables…

— Henry Clay

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

— Li Keqiang

“Only by using a ‘structured means of control’ can an organization convert high-cost controls into business-assuring, profit-enhancing control.”

— Stephen Asbury