126 Quotes About Free-market
- Author Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
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Once you understand the economics of the Austrian School and the philosophy of liberty in the tradition of Rothbard, you never look at anything – not the state, the media, the central bank, the political class, nothing – the same way again.
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- Author Frédéric Bastiat
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The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.
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- Author Israel M. Kirzner
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The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless.
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- Author James C. Scott
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Given a choice between patterns of subsistence that are relatively unfavorable to the cultivator but which yield a greater return in manpower or grain to the state and those patterns that benefit the cultivator but deprive the state, the ruler will choose the former every time. The ruler, then, maximizes the state-accessible product, if necessary, at the expense of the overall wealth of the realm and its subjects.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Here's something I still can't get over. Amazes and thrills me every time. I'm sitting here and want a certain book. So I search, click, and then I have the book. Every time, my heart does a little leap of joy. What a beautiful world the market is making.
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- Author Ludwig von Mises
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What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.
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- Author Stefan Molyneux
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Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Where there is commerce there is peace.
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