Both Quote by Joseph Stiglitz

When you have a highly divided society, it's hard to come together to make investments in the common good.

— Joseph Stiglitz

We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government…

— Ronald Reagan

The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not…

— Ronald Reagan

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

“What did trust, cooperation, progressive taxation and the interventionist state bequeath to western societies in the decades following 1945? The short answer is, in…

— Tony Judt

Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of…

— Greg Graffin

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

— Thomas Jefferson

“No two societies create the same institutions; they will have distinct customs, different systems of property rights, and different ways of dividing a killed…

— Daron Acemoğlu

We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the…

— Matthew Crawford

“A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.”

— Paul Kriwaczek

“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed,…

— George Orwell