Camilo Fonseca

“The market economy is not everything. It must find its place in a higher order of things which is not ruled by supply and demand, free prices, and competition. It must be firmly contained within an all-embracing order of society in which the imperfections of and harshness of economic freedom are corrected by law and in which man is not denied conditions of life appropriate to his nature.”
― Wilhelm Röpke, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market

“The questionable things of this world come to grief on their nature, the good ones on their own excesses.”
― Wilhelm Röpke, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market

“It is economism to allow material gain to obscure the danger that we may forfeit liberty, variety, and justice and that the concentration of power may grow, and it is also economism to forget that people do not live by cheaper vacuum cleaners alone but by other and higher things which may wither in the shadows of giant industries and monopolies.”
― Wilhelm Röpke, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market

“We need a combination of supreme moral sensitivity and economic knowledge. Economically ignorant moralism is as objectionable as morally callous economism. Ethics and economics are two equally difficult subjects, and while the former needs discerning and expert reason, the latter cannot do without humane values.”
― Wilhelm Röpke, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market