
“Government doesn’t "intrude" on the "free market." It creates the market.”
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (2015)
Source: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 15
Context: The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the "rule of the game" and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.
“Government doesn’t "intrude" on the "free market." It creates the market.”
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (2015)
“The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.”
Source: Liberty A to Z (2004), p. 76
“Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”
Interview, Los Angeles Times (7 January 1970)
1970s
Source: Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
“A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.”
As quoted in Daily report: People's Republic of China, Editions 240-249 (1993), p. 30
Interview, Time, 4 November 1985.
Variant: There are no fundamental contradictions between a socialist system and a market economy.
“Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.”
Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 8, Democracy and the free market, p. 176