Thomas Sowell Quotes About Free Market

Quotes about: Free Market

• Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Political, Pay

• Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Vision, Affordable Housing

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.92, Hoover Press

• Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and demand in a free market: (1) increased use of the product or service whose price is controlled, (2) Reduced supply of the same product or service, (3) quality deterioration, (4) black markets.

  Thomas Sowell

  Black, Quality, Deterioration

• The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having to worry about the constraints of prices, which confront people at every turn in a free market.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, People, Worry

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