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Because the average individual is more empowered in the market arena than in the political arena, the market is a more powerful force for social change than is the government. |
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There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes cold...it is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, what are the causes of wealth?
Madsen Pirie |
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In the whole history of capitalism, no one has been able to establish a coercive monopoly by means of competition in a free market. There is only one way to forbid entry into a given field of production: by law. Every single coercive monopoly that exists or ever has existed...was created and made possible only by an act of government: by special franchises, licenses, subsidies, by legislative actions which granted special privileges (not obtainable in a free market) to a man or a group of men, and forbade all others to enter that particular field.
Nathaniel Branden |