
“We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.”
Source: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 5 “Created Equal”, p. 146
“We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.”
Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 6, p. 81
Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 2, Learning the right lessons from history, p. 61
Context: Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.
Studies in Mutualist Political Economy (2007), Chapter 4.
Studies in Mutualist Political Economy (2007)
“The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.”
Source: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. xvii
"State Capitalism Comes of Age," http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/64948/ian-bremmer/state-capitalism-comes-of-age Foreign Affairs (May/June 2009).
“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”
Attributed
Profit Over People (1999).
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999
Context: The "corporatization of America" during the past century has been an attack on democracy—and on markets, part of the shift from something resembling "capitalism" to the highly administered markets of the modern state/corporate era. A current variant is called "minimizing the state," that is, transferring decision-making power from the public arena to somewhere else: "to the people" in the rhetoric of power; to private tyrannies, in the real world.