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Quotes About Free market

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
I read recently that 60% of all drugs on the black-market had been put there by the police. No sooner are drugs seized, it seems, than they are recycled onto the streets by the arresting officers! I know our Leader, Mrs Thatcher, is in favour of private enterprise, but this is the free market gone mad!...Yours for the Market Economy Within Reasonable Limits!
~ William Donaldson
I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.
~ Jay Roach
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
~ Ludwig von Mises
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.
~ Ronald Reagan
Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.
~ Reince Priebus
Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.
~ Richard A. Falk
We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.
~ Daniel Morgan
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
~ Jane Smiley
Several of the gates were cautiously opened; the importation of provisions from the river and the adjacent country was no longer obstructed by the Goths; the citizens resorted in crowds to the free market, which was held during three days in the suburbs; and while the merchants who undertook this gainful trade made a considerable profit, the future subsistence of the city was secured by the ample magazines which were deposited in the public and private granaries.
~ Edward Gibbon
There are always losers when society evolves. In the free market, these losers are expected and encouraged to retrain and find new ways to survive and thrive.
~ John McAfee
The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.
~ John Shadegg
What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
~ Vaclav Klaus
Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
~ Ron Paul
I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
~ George W. Bush
I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.
~ Sarah Palin
Economists have not always been so dense about self-control problems. For roughly two centuries, the economists who wrote on this topic knew their Humans. In fact, an early pioneer of what we would now call a behavioral treatment of self-control was none other than the high priest of free market economics: Adam Smith. When most people think about Adam Smith, they think of his most famous work, The Wealth of Nations
~ Richard H. Thaler
Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.
~ John Pugsley
In a sense, all schooling in the United States was an elaborate training session for the free market, democratic, meritocratic, modern, bloodless warfare that would dominate their adult lives.
~ David Shenk
Colourblind racism has also been labelled 'laissez faire racism' because it is based on the myth of individuals with equal starting points competing in a free market, thus chiming with neoliberal economic nostrums. Indeed, it has been argued by Randolph Hohle
~ Ali Rattansi
I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?
~ Stuart Rose
When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.
~ Ben Shapiro
It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
You know, I'm a free market politician and I think I'm the only one who worked for think-tanks like the Montreal Economic Institute.
~ Maxime Bernier