There's all kinds of phantom work! Unreal values assigned to most of the jobs on Earth! The entire transnational executive class does nothing a computer couldn't do, and there are whole categories of...
Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
the decisive movement toward corporate capitalism began in 1895-1896.
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two.
When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. It was to foster and protect the kind of values for whic...
The free market is not a system. It is not a policy dictated by anyone in particular. It is not something that Washington implements. It does not exist in any legislation, law, bill, regulation, or bo...
Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look...
As a means of alleviating poverty, Christian charity was worse than useless, as could be seen in the Papal states, which abounded in it. But it was popular not only among the traditionalist rich, who...
Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Money has replaced the vote.
Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.
...capitalism is too important and complex a subject to be left to economists. Achieving a critical comprehension of it requires perspectives beyond those characteristic of modern economics. That is w...
How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage...
Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.