“All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.” GovernmentConsumersOperationsBureaucrats Author:Murray Rothbard
“One of the most important features of our economic resources is their scarcity: land, labor, and capital goods factors are all scarce, and may all be put to various possible uses. The free market uses them 'productively' because the producers are guided, on the market, to produce what the consumers most need: automobiles, for example, rather than buggies.” NeedsMayImportantUseEconomicLandExampleProduceResourcesLaborVariousFactorsProducersConsumersFeaturesGoodsFree MarketAutomobileScarceScarcityLabor And CapitalEconomic Resources Author:Murray Rothbard
“The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible.” IndividualTechnologyCuttingProductsCostDemandGloryEssenceMeetingsConsumersFirmGoodsProgressiveEfficientImprovingCompetingFree MarketAdvancingGoods And ServicesOrchestration Book:For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto Source: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
“The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.” WantNeedsMeanDesireEconomyPoliticianActivityResourcesConsumersProductiveSatisfyingBureaucracyCompulsionPrivate SectorWants And NeedsPublic Sector Book:Economic Controversies Source: Economic Controversies
“Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year in and year out, in Democrat or Republican regimes, in good times and in bad.” YearsNationsDealsPolicyRepublicanLogicDemocratConsumersGood TimesExpensesFarmsRegimesNew Deal Author:Murray Rothbard
“While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too often, seekers after subsidies, contracts, privileges, or cartels furnished by big government. Often, business lobbyists and leaders are the sparkplugs for the statist, interventionist system.” BigsGovernmentLeaderEconomyPrivilegeConsumersFirmServantProductiveContractsFree MarketSeekersBig BusinessBusiness LeadersBig GovernmentSubsidiesMarket EconomyLobbyistsCartels Author:Murray Rothbard
“This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.” ThinkingWayStatesPhilosophyWholeActionPoliticalInterestGroupsSpecialEconomicsBunchConsumersWelfareTaxpayersSpecial InterestsWelfare StateInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Author:Murray Rothbard
“On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.” DesireValuesAmountProducersConsumersProportionProductiveAnarchySatisfyingDistributionFree MarketPlunder Book:Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition Source: Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition
