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George Gerald Reisman is an American economist. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and the author of The Government Against the Economy , which was praised by both F. A. Hayek and Henry Hazlitt, and Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics . He is known as an advocate of free market or laissez-faire capitalism. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. January 1937
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Famous George Reisman Quotes

“Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.”

George Reisman

Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996)

“If the individual is a means to the ends of the State, so too, of course, is his property. Just as he is owned by the State, his property is also owned by the State.”

George Reisman

“Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian,” lecture delivered at the Mises Institute’s “The Economics of Fascism: Supporters Summit 2005” in Auburn, Alabama (October 8, 2005) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsaG-pJ_4RA&list=PLOCWSOHhjJPUQ9kkhBKV9js9tFJTPp3yC&index=3&t=0s

“Like the use of the word 'concupiscence' in an earlier age to describe sexual desire, the use of the word 'pollution' to describe essential aspects of the productive activities of an industrial society represents an attempt to defame an entirely proper human capacity by means of using an evil sounding name for it.”

George Reisman

Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996)

“The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.”

George Reisman

Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996)

“The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.”

George Reisman

Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996)

“Whoever claims that economic competition represents "survival of the fittest" in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.”

George Reisman

Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996)

“The green movement, in other words, is the red movement stripped of the veneer of reason and science and bent on the destruction of reason and science rather than take the trouble to learn what reason and science actually are. The green movement is the red movement no longer in its boisterous, arrogant youth, but in its demented old age.”

George Reisman

Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996)

“Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy will be redeemed when the people have taken back their government from the criminal alliance of Communists, Socialists, New Dealers and the Eisenhower-Dewey Republicans.”

George Reisman

"One Enchanted Evening" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,936247,00.html, Time Magazine (Aug. 9, 1954)

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