Kindlehighlight Quote by Thomas Frank

“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich’.”

— Ha-Joon Chang

“The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Freedom fighters, as Fink labeled the donors, needed to explain to American voters that their opposition to programs for the poor did not stem…

— Jane Mayer

“You just think we live in a free country, Everett. We are at the mercy of greed and the selfish pursuit of wealth.”

— D.J. Israel

“The flames of a new economic evolution run around us, and we turn to find that competition has killed competition, that corporations are grown…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Every student of political science, every student of political economy, every student of economics knows that the race can only be saved through a…

— Marcus Garvey

“Remember the free market? Well, it works. And now we are seeing what happens when you replace it with a bunch of useless college…

— Kurt Schlichter

“The writer doesn’t need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. I’ve never known anything good in writing to come…

— William Faulkner

“People continue to deploy the same justification of market society—that it would secure the personal independence of workers from arbitrary authority—long after it failed…

— Elizabeth S. Anderson

“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can…

— Oscar Wilde

“purportedly free market, corrupt officials and state-owned companies looking to leverage their monopoly positions into profits.”

— Bill Hayton

“This is the fly in the ointment of free-market capitalism. It cannot ensure that profits are gained in a fair way, or distributed in…

— Yuval Noah Harari