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1、Economists Quotes 经济学家名言Economists QuotesA major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.Milton FriedmanColumbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response

2、 to a majority directive.Milton FriedmanConcentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.Milton FriedmanEvery friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with cas

3、ual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.Milton FriedmanGovernments never learn. Only people learn.Milton FriedmanHell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.Milton FriedmanHistory suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for

4、political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.Milton FriedmanI am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever its possible.Milton FriedmanIm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, t

5、hey have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.Milton FriedmanIf you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years thered be a shortage of sand.Milton FriedmanInflation is taxation without legislation.Milton FriedmanInflation

6、 is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.Milton FriedmanMany people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.Milton FriedmanMost economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there

7、is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.Milton FriedmanMost of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.Milton FriedmanNothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.Milton FriedmanOne mans opportunism

8、is another mans statesmanship.Milton FriedmanOnly government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.Milton FriedmanThe black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a

9、way of opening up, enabling people.Milton FriedmanThe government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.Milton FriedmanThe Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private

10、 economy.Milton FriedmanThe greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.Milton FriedmanThe most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes p

11、lace unless both parties benefit.Milton FriedmanThe most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.Milton FriedmanThe only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction wit

12、h experience.Milton FriedmanThe only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And thats why its so essential to preserving individual freedom.Milton FriedmanThe power to do good is also the power to do harm.Milton FriedmanTh

13、e problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.Milton FriedmanTheres no such thing as a free lunch.Milton FriedmanUnderlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.Mi

14、lton FriedmanUniversities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.Milton FriedmanWe have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.Milton FriedmanAn almost hysterical antag

15、onism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense. that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.Alan GreenspanAny informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.Alan GreenspanAnything that we can do to raise personal savings is

16、 very much in the interest of this country.Alan GreenspanHistory has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.Alan GreenspanI guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, youve probably misunderstood what Ive said.Alan GreenspanI have found n

17、o greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.Alan GreenspanI was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in

18、the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.Alan GreenspanIn the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.Alan GreenspanProtectionism will do little to create jobs and if forei

19、gners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.Alan GreenspanThe true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.Alan GreenspanTo succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a

20、solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.Alan GreenspanWe need, in effect, to make the phantom lock-boxes around the trust fund real.Alan GreenspanWhatever you tax, you get less of.Alan GreenspanA claim for equality of material posit

21、ion can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.Friedrich August von HayekEmergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.Friedrich August von HayekEven the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an

22、 officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.Friedrich August von HayekFreedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.Friedrich August von HayekHe will therefore ha

23、ve to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.Friedrich August von HayekI do not think it is an exaggerat

24、ion to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.Friedrich August von HayekI have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a cer

25、tain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.Friedrich August von HayekI regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern

26、 even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.Friedrich August von HayekIf most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions

27、 for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.Friedrich August von HayekIf we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.Friedrich August vo

28、n HayekIntellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.Friedrich August von HayekIt can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.Friedrich August von HayekIt is rather

29、a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.Friedrich August von HayekIt seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the

30、 differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.Friedrich August von HayekOur moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.Friedrich August von HayekPerhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a

31、tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose ones government is not necessarily to secure freedom.Friedrich August von HayekThe credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.Friedrich August von HayekThe mind cannot foresee its own advance.Friedrich August von HayekThe progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of cour