Business Quote by Max Keiser

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

But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions,…

— Michael Polanyi

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others…

— Murray Rothbard

In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Is precisely in market dealings that market prices are formed for all kinds of goods and services, which will be taken as the bases…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon…

— Rudolf Hiferding

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is…

— P. J. O'Rourke

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

— Merton Miller

The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.

— Cornel West

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 market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of his fellow-men.…

— Ludwig von Mises