Allocation Quote by Sheldon Richman

“financial transactions have displaced the production of goods or services as the source of private fortunes, distorting the value we place upon different kinds…

— Tony Judt

The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

— George Gilder

“Economies about money are called market economies. But we use the term in a more abstract way to refer to any kind of system…

— Ernest Adams

“financial transactions that produced both wealth and unpopularity.”

— Thomas Sowell

“A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. He does not treat men as…

— Ayn Rand

Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes…

— Pope John Paul II

“The second conclusion, which is the heart of the book, is that the dynamics of wealth distribution reveal powerful mechanisms pushing alternately toward convergence…

— Thomas Piketty

“A fundamental insight of modern economics is that the key to the creation of wealth is a division of labor, in which specialists learn…

— Steven Pinker

“Market without competition impedes its' dynamics.”

— Toba Beta

The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions…

— Ludwig von Mises

The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of…

— Irving Fisher

“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