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“One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.”

Country States Would Be Mistake Responsibility History Power Economic Honesty Capitalism Economics Absolutes Oneself Debt Socialism Taxation Egoism Interference Isolationism

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.”

Problem Political Intellectual Capitalism Transformation University Socialism Communism Threatened Interference Financing Isms Intellectual Freedom

Author:Serge Lang

“All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.”

Evil Evidence Capitalism Outcomes Interference

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way.”

Way Play Government Choices Middle Capitalism Management Productions Socialism Distribution Interference Delegates Middle Way Free Play

Book:The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism

Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism

“The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome of the operation of the free market. They are on the contrary the result of well-intentioned but ill-advised government interference with the market.”

Source: Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

“We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely perfect solutions of any problem are out of reach of mortal men. What the operation of a market not sabotaged by the interference of compulsion and coercion can bring about is merely the best solution accessible to the human mind under the given state of technological knowledge and the intellectual abilities of the age's shrewdest men.”

“All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.”

Government Results Liberty Economy Capitalism Disaster Cures Poison Interference Free Economy

Author:Ayn Rand

“But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by the non-availability of one of more elements of the process - the accumulated stock in a money form, the labor-power to be utilized by the producer, the network of distributors, the consumers who were purchasers. One or more elements were missing because, in previous historical social systems, one or more of these elements was not commodified or was insufficiently commodified.”

Form Social Process Missing Elements Capitalism Labor Direct Historical Absence Producers Consumers Interfere Interference Availability Social Systems Distributors Purchasers

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.”