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When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

—Trevor D.

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Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

—Tyler Cowen

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Rich or poor it’s nice to have money

—Alan Sheinwald

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The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.

—Ryan Lilly

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Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

—Anna Lappé

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I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are not ended.Capitalism has borne the monstrous burden of the war and...

—Benito Mussolini

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falling” too, I am more concerned about the burdens of a non-custodial—the dilemma of parental alienation with absolute liability for financial support. If any ‘positive’ aspect could be extracted from the non-custodial lifestyle, it is...

—H. Kirk

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My cat’s favorite sport is economics, and his favorite player is Ben Bernanke. But it’s just too violent for me to enjoy.

—Jarod Kintz

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laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects definable in physical terms. All that the theory of the social sciences attempts is to provide a technique of reasoning which assists us...

—Friedrich Hayek

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The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

—Henry Hazlitt

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The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

—Herman E.

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As with our earlier worship of saints and facts, there is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. The message of the...

—John Ralston Saul

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The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the...

—Joan C.

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And the English have grown so used to this that they use ‘currency’ as a synonym for money, as if no distinction need be observed between them.

—Neal Stephenson

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Ultimately, we need to take control over the money supply out of the hands of our governments and make the production of money again subject to the principle of free association. The first step to...

—Jörg Guido

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By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

—John Maynard Keynes

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Reconciliation means that those who have been on the underside of history must see that there is a qualitative difference between repression and freedom. And for them, freedom translates into having a supply of clean...

—Naomi Klein

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new economy” has largely been founded upon transferring wealth from the less wealthy to the already-extremely-rich.

—Steven Shaviro

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In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it’s not surprising that this generation...

—Pew Research

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Have you heard the joke about the chemist, physicist and economist who get wrecked on a desert isle, with a huge supply of canned baked beans as their only food? The chemist says that he...

—Steve Keen

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The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone wants to have an opinion. Yet the kind of economics covered in the...

—Paul Krugman

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If it’s okay to enrich ourselves by denying foreigners the right to earn a living, why shouldn’t we enrich ourselves by invading peaceful countries and seizing their assets? Most of us don’t think that’s a...

—Steven E.

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At times there’s something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who...

—Arundhati Roy

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If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they...

—Bertrand Russell

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If the world were full of the self-seeking individuals found in economics textbooks, it would grind to a halt because we would be spending most of our time cheating, trying to catch the cheaters, and...

—Ha-Joon Chang

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It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its use for the magic opening of the temple doors, when the priests lit the fires on the altars, to...

—Frederick Soddy

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In effect, the poor person is a rich person left to fend for him or herself, without the support of institutions that help the person to take ‘good’ decisions.

—Daniel Cohen

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A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a...

—Henry M.

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The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

—Joseph Schumpeter

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It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money – that’s all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the...

—John Ruskin

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The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks such ideas must seem to be a trifle self-confident and...

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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This plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into...

—Milton Friedman

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American way of life.

—Ludwig von

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Armed with the new right to sell their products back to host societies, they can bleed both producing and buying populations at the same time. That is why under new international “free trade” agreements private...

—John McMurtry

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The only true and sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity.

—Joseph E.

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I have a dream, there will be critical point in the future,where economics and technology will negate each other.

—Toba Beta

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As Thorstein Veblen correctly surmised over a century ago, the failure of economics to become an evolutionary science is the product of the optimizing framework of the underlying paradigm, which is inherently antithetical to the...

—Thorstein Veblen

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It’s not that gays and diversity equal high technology. But if your culture is not such that it can accept difference, and uniqueness and oddity and eccentricity, you will not get high tech industry.

—Richard Florida

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All of us—employers, parents, schools, government agencies, and interns themselves—are complicit in the devaluing of work, the exacerbation of social inequality, and the disillusionment of young people in the workplace that are emerging as a...

—Ross Perlin

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We must arm ourselves with patience and wisdom and listen to the poor what they want. This is the best way to avoid the trap of ignorance, ideology and inertia on our side.

—Abhijit V. Banerjee

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We used to think God made us in His image, and that meant we were special, until science told us we just evolved that way because it suited a landscape of trees and savannas. That’s...

—Adam Roberts

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In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with the Blair/Orwell distinction) congratulates them on their forceful use of tautology:‘Orwell belonged to the category of writers who write.’...

—Christopher Hitchens

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There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay...

—Isabel Paterson

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Economist should be spelled echonomist, because they all repeat each other.

—Jarod Kintz

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If everyone in America started mailing empty boxes, we could boost productivity, profitability, and employment. Think like a politician.

—Jarod Kintz

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In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we expect our children to live better than we do.

—Frank Levy

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I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all due respect to the governor here, that I doubt seriously that he will do — cannot do — anything. And...

—Jerry Ash

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Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con tricks – they’re not even necessarily against our direct interests, although sometimes they...

—Nick Harkaway

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The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

—Jeffrey D.

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The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

—Kalle Lasn

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