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A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

There is no pure free-market economy.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot be separated. Each flows out of the other.

To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.

Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.

Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account.

The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

It is precisely through falling prices that the fruits of increased productivity and economic growth are spread throughout the market economy.

Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation.

Yes to market economy, no to market society.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on the socialist analysis of the market economy.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.

It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome.

I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.

Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water can have it.