Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to read more

Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.

If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase read more

If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is read more

What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in read more

Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.