Quote by Thomas Sowell

“Markets weed out inefficient practices, but only when no one has sufficient power to manipulate them.”

— Ha-Joon Chang

Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and demand in…

— Thomas Sowell

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

— Li Keqiang

To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies…

— Alex Berenson

“Market without competition impedes its' dynamics.”

— Toba Beta

There has been an overreliance on competition and self-regulation to constrain the excesses of market forces. This must change.

— Fumio Kishida

“Fundamentally, in a system in which the knowledge of the relevant facts is dispersed among many people, prices can act to coordinate the separate…

— Friedrich Hayek

“Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy.”

— Bell Hooks

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power…

— Alfred Marshall

“You've got to spend your money for the things that money can buy, not worry about profit or loss. Save your energy for the…

— Haruki Murakami

“[The] utility resulting from any small increase in wealth will be inversely proportionate to the quantity of goods previously possessed.”

— Peter L. Bernstein

To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase…

— Calvin Coolidge