Quotes about Austrian economics

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It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. — Murray N. Rothbard
People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because — Ayn Rand
Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the legally permitted pric — Thomas Sowell
Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. Th — Murray N. Rothbard
In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision — Murray N. Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty
Without anarchy, there would be chaos. — Jeffrey Tucker
The first people to get the new money are the counterfeiters, which they use to buy various goods and services. The seco — Murray N. Rothbard
The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered t — Jeffrey Tucker
While liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults eng — Murray N. Rothbard
There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the — Murray N. Rothbard
No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire. — Lysander Spooner
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you. — Albert Jay Nock
Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge deman — Jeffrey Tucker
In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save t — Jeffrey Tucker
Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as ad — Robert Higgs
Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged crimina — Murray N. Rothbard
To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the p — Henry Hazlitt
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of publi — Ludwig von Mises
If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about t — Ludwig von Mises
What is a price? It is a proposed point of agreement between a buyer and seller. The proposal is the key. It is not a ma — Jeffrey Tucker