Quotes About Free Market Economy

#1. We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

Julian Castro

#2. A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade ... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

Nathaniel Branden

#3. I find it quite useful to think of a free-market economy - or partly free market economy - as sort of the equivalent of an ecosystem. Just as animals flourish in niches, people who specialize in some narrow niche can do very well.

Charlie Munger

#4. The transparency and intelligibility of a country with a free market economy can reassure its neighbors that it is not going on a war footing, which can defuse a Hobbesian trap and cramp a leader's freedom to engage in risky bluffing and brinkmanship.

Steven Pinker

#5. In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them ... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them ... '

Brian Eno

#6. The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

Omar Bongo

#7. The more central problem of money in politics is something just as troubling but much harder to see: a system in which economic inequalities, inevitable in a free market economy, are transformed into political inequalities that affect both electoral and legislative outcomes.

Richard L. Hasen

#8. It had been well known for twenty years that the distribution of large and small earthquakes followed a particular mathematical pattern, precisely the same scaling pattern that seemed to govern the distribution of personal incomes in a free-market economy.

James Gleick

#9. Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

Elton Gallegly

#10. There is no pure free-market economy.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#11. I know their unstinted devotion to the free-market economy, provided it's their freedom and somebody else's economy.

John Le Carre

#12. I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#13. In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#14. The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

Dean Acheson

#15. Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with "big government" when it served their needs.

Howard Zinn

#16. Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.

Wendell Berry

#17. All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free market, but by government intervention into the economy.

Ayn Rand

#18. As much as I say that market economy is a more aggressive, expansile form of command economy, I say now that democracy is a more aggressive, expansile form of dictatorship. The sin of democracy and any types of -cracy is their numbers.

Andreas Laurencius

#19. No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Mark Skousen

#20. A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

Charles Wheelan

#21. President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

Fred Barnes

#22. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

David Suzuki

#23. I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free, open-market economy integrated with the world. And I believe in equality of opportunity. Those are my basic beliefs. On top of that, of course, I believe in some moral values.

Sebastian Pinera

#24. A coat is not worth eight times as much as a hat to the community because it takes eight times as long to make it ... The community is willing to devote eight times as long to the making of a coat because it will be worth eight times as much to it

Mark Skousen

#25. When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution of private property, and the general rule of law, we will all improve our economic condition much faster than when we are ordered around by bureaucrats.

Henry Hazlitt

#26. People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.

Trevor D. Richardson

#27. A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Lee R. Raymond

#28. Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.

Ludwig Von Mises

#29. We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#30. Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

Ludwig Von Mises

#31. Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#32. The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

Ibrahim Babangida

#33. You do not need to be in the single market we do not need that we are the word's fifth biggest economy. Most economies can agree free trade deals within two years the EU is taking 10 years or never at all, why?

Andrea Leadsom

#34. Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

Ludwig Von Mises

#35. The reaper can be produced only in countries where labor receives a high reward, where farmers own their own acres without fear of being despoiled by invading armies, where average of intelligence is as high in the country as in the city.

Herbert Newton Casson

#36. The air we breathe is still free, but for how much time. I believe someone is busy patenting it to start selling it for profit

Bangambiki Habyarimana