“The price system transmits only the important information and only to the people who need to know.”

— Milton Friedman , book Free to Choose

Source: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", 15

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American economist, statistician, and writer 1912–2006

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“People will resist information unless the price of not knowing it greatly exceeds the price of learning it.”

Calvin Mooers (1919–1994) American computer scientist

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“Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them. The much–maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve.”

Ilana Mercer South African writer

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“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education… The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.”

Eleanor Roosevelt My Day

11 May 1943
My Day (1935–1962)

“Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.”

Wendy Kaminer (1949) American lawyer

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