Anatoly Chubais Quotes

Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened my eyes to many facets of how the extended order works.

First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

Commerce is the greatest of all political interests.

… governments must serve capitalism by establishing and maintain a framework which enables capitalism to develop. It can induce it to grow, but cannot command it to do so.

Mexico is a market economy, but we should have better markets.

I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at the heart of our free-enterprise system.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.

If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.

I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.

Economics has become as riveting as politics.

Different countries have different kinds of financial structures.

In this day and age, a big economy – a modern economy – just cannot be managed from the top.

Economic freedom is an end in itself …. Economic freedom is an indispensable means towards the achievement of political freedom.

It is not our foreign trade that has caused the wonderful growth and expansion of the Republic.

We cannot separate politics from economics.

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a non-capitalistic environment.

Economics, not force of arms will decide; not battles, but famine.

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process.

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.