107 Quotes About Laissez-faire
- 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 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 Jeffrey Tucker
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Growing economies are built by billions of actors behaving according to their own interests, coordinated through institutions that no one in particular created.Realizing this requires humility, a trait that is in short supply among would-be dictators, politicians, and bureaucrats, which is precisely why these groups are the proven enemies of prosperity in all times and places.
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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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There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top philosophers and not stupid people, for many thousands of years before the age of the enlightenment. It still is.
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- Author Wilhelm Röpke
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In spite of its alluring name, the welfare state stands or falls by compulsion. It is compulsion imposed upon us with the state’s power to punish noncompliance. Once this is clear, it is equally clear that the welfare state is an evil the same as every restriction of freedom.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Where there is commerce there is peace.
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