We Shall All Be The Gainers If

I Am Convinced That If The Market System Were The Result Of Deliberate Human Design, And If The People Guided By The Price Changes Understood That Their Decisions Have Significance Far Beyond Their Immediate Aims, This Mechanism Would Have Been Acclaimed As One Of The Greatest Triumphs Of The Human Mind.

We Have Indeed At The Moment Little Cause For Pride: As A Profession We Have Made A Mess Of Things.

Economic Control Is Not Merely Control Of A Sector Of Human Life Which Can Be Separated From The Rest; It Is The Control Of The Means For All Our Ends. And Whoever Has Sole Control Of The Means Must Also Determine Which Ends Are To Be Served, Which Values Are To Be Rates Higher And Which Lower, In Short, What Men Should Believe And Strive For.

A Claim For Equality Of Material Position Can Be Met Only By A Government With Totalitarian Powers.

Once Politics Become A Tug-of-war For Shares In The Income Pie, Decent Government Is Impossible.