Collective action Quote by Tony Judt

“Individuals are most likely to trust and cooperate freely with systems—whether they themselves win or lose by those systems—when fair process is observed.”

— Harvard Business Review

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules…

— Eliot Spitzer

Competition, by itself, always leads to cheating by the powerful, who try to establish pyramids of power, like feudalism. Yet, competition is the great…

— David Brin

The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence,…

— Arthur Melvin Okun

In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.

— James Surowiecki

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do…

— Alan Greenspan

Trustworthiness is an innate virtue and you can't buy it with any price nor enforces or impose it. It has to come from within…

— Kemmy Nola

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

“It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is the fundamental…

— Wendell Berry

“But in its extreme form, belief in the free market is as naive as belief in Santa Claus. There simply is no such thing…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Because every exchange is always a relationship, to get the most while giving the least is unjust, unethical, antisocial, abusive, perhaps 'evil.' Yet predatory…

— James Hillman

“The existence of thriving competitors proves that there is a market. After that, it’s all about execution: if you execute better than the competitors,…

— Jonathan Siegel