Allowing Quote by Karl Polanyi

When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

— Robert Kuttner

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those…

— Jerry Pournelle

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free…

— Ludwig von Mises

“In its study of the future of work, the laissez-faire Baker Institute admitted it had been ‘unable to find any solutions based on the…

— Edward Luce

Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.

— Noam Chomsky

“Why did so many smart people believe these laissez-fairey tales? It’s a good question. Some of the blame surely goes to the excessive faith…

— Alan S. Blinder

The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is…

— George Bernard Shaw

Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that…

— Howard Zinn

Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only…

— Tim Wu

There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. Not one. The only place you see…

— Dwayne Andreas

“A free-market system is one in which economic production and consumption are determined by the free choices of individuals rather than governments, and this…

— Barry Asmus

I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb