Alex Tabarrok Quotes

I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

Capitalism works.

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

The land of the capitalists…

Capitalism is economic Darwinism…free enterprise is code for individualistic amorality…the marketplace is the temple of secular humanism.

Capitalism is based on a kind of inherited moral climate.

Capitalism … has existed for fewer than 300 years. If the entire history of Homo sapiens was a 24-hour day, then capitalism has existed for two minutes … Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either.

Capitalism is a set of rituals.

Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.

Capitalism is the engine that has grown economies.

Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

Capitalism will kill competition.