Peter L. Berger Quotes

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism

Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me.

Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics.

As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned and centrally administered economy, so popular in the 1930s and early 1940s, has been discredited.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all of the economists of my generation - Nicky Kaldor , Thomas Balogh, L. K. Jah, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the list could be indefinitely extended. The urge to participate (and correct Hayek) was ruthlessly competitive.

I do believe in the free market.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

The school of laissez faire, of which you seem to be a pronounced advocate, has produced great men in advocating the theory of each for himself, and his Satanic Majesty taking the hindermost

I'm pro-free enterprise.

For people who seem so hell-bent on multiculturalism, why can't liberals understand that free enterprise/freedom is a part of the American Culture?

I see myself as a bit of a capitalist really - I like enterprise and making money.

All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By the time of his death, his fundamental way of thought had supplanted the system of John Maynard Keynes - his chief intellectual rival of the century - in the battle since the 1930s for the minds of economists and the policies of governments.

Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.