Against Quote by Mo Ibrahim

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years,…

— Barry Schwartz

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts…

— Dan Ariely

Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government…

— Charles Koch

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

— Charles Koch

Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.

— John Stossel

The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.

— Alexander Hamilton

I think that markets classically fail in cases where there are public goods that provide benefits that people cannot capture. The big debate is…

— Peter Thiel

The public subsidies provided to miners, loggers, and ranchers are as extravagant and as harmful to the public interest as the subsidies that the…

— Paul Craig Roberts

The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.

— Newt Gingrich

Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

— Alfred Kahn

No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

— Mark Twain

The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence,…

— Arthur Melvin Okun