Bureaucracy Quote by Ralph Raico

Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at…

— Ralph Raico

Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

— Robert Gilpin

“These monopolies, and many more, gave individuals or groups the sole right to control the production of many goods. They impeded the type of…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Within this stable and secure environment people had the ability and the incentive to pursue their own economic interests.”

— Edward A. Hudson

“It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement and freed…

— Ludwig von Mises

If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the…

— Victor Ponta

Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most…

— Alan Greenspan

“[A] central theme is why social, political, and economic institutions tend to coevolve in a manner that reinforces rather than undermines one another. The…

— Torben Iversen

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to…

— Herbert Croly

Rich country protectionism - barriers, subsidies and support - mean that the world supply of agricultural goods is artificially increased and world prices depressed.

— Hilary Benn

“This economy is based upon consumption, which ultimately serves, not the ordinary consumers, but a tiny class of excessively wealthy people for whose further…

— Wendell Berry

Republicans who controlled the government in the 1920s insisted that national prosperity depended on government protection of the rich, who they believed would plow…

— Heather Cox Richardson