“automatic search for causes shapes our thinking,”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers, the people, the common man, prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.”
― Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
― Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects.”
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“They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports.”
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“Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.”
― The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
― The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
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