Democracy Quote by Ludwig von Mises

The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power to force…

— Ludwig von Mises

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence,…

— Douglas Massey

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

— Charles Wheelan

The market is regarded as democratic because everybody has a vote. Of course, some have more votes than others because your votes depend on…

— Noam Chomsky

It is not true at all that a free market will ensure a democracy. It doesn't. There must be a balance between a free…

— Mahathir Mohamad

“As with democratic politics, the market is a mass of individuals making discrete choices within a framework shaped by larger forces, over which they…

— Charles J. Chaput

What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express…

— Walter E. Williams

The free market is fundamentally humane and democratic, driven by ideas and millions of individual choices about what to do with our money which…

— Liz Truss

A society is not a market. It is a political community.

— Michael Ignatieff

In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal…

— Benjamin Graham

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

— Benjamin Graham

We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have…

— Margrethe Vestager