Airports Quote by Thomas Frank

Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.

— Bethany McLean

Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.

— Bethany McLean

Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are…

— Thomas Piketty

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

— John Maynard Keynes

When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many bringing a…

— David Kim

I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings…

— Samuel B. Pettengill

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized ...

— Noam Chomsky

Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

— Timothy Noah

Since the dawn of civilization, markets have been ubiquitous. Many of us have benefited from their focus and efficiency. Yet two widely held beliefs…

— Howard Gardner

The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands, and communities,…

— Wendell Berry