Economists Quotes 经济学家名言.doc

Economists Quotes A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.?Milton Friedman?Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.?Milton Friedman?Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.?Milton Friedman?Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.?Milton Friedman?Governments never learn. Only people learn.?Milton Friedman?Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.?Milton Friedman?History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.?Milton Friedman?I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever its possible.?Milton Friedman?Im in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.?Milton Friedman?If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years thered be a shortage of sand.?Milton Friedman?Inflation is taxation without legislation.?Milton Friedman?Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.?Milton Friedman?Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.?Milton Friedman?Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.?Milton Friedman?Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the e