George Reisman

“A gold standard is the monetary system of a free society.”

“The source of the mass unemployment that exists in the world today is government intervention in the economic system.”

“Under capitalism, the way to get rich is to serve the consumers.”

“The price system is a mechanism of social cooperation.”

“The real wages of labor depend on the productivity of labor.”

“Profit is the reward for making production more efficient.”

“The profit motive is the motive to serve the consumers better and more efficiently than others are doing.”

“Saving and capital accumulation are the indispensable means of all economic progress.”

“The meaning of economic competition is the striving of producers to offer a better product at a lower price.”

“Capitalism is the economic system of a free society.”

“The actual basis of the Marxian theory of value is the simplistic view that because producers produce things, the value of the things is determined by the producers' labor.”

“What socialism and all forms of government intervention have in common is the fact that they are based on the use of physical force.”

“The solution to the problem of poverty is capitalism.”

“The foundation of a division-of-labor society is the institution of private ownership of the means of production.”

“The advocacy of capitalism is the advocacy of reason.”

“Environmentalism is the new socialism.”

“The harmony of the rational self-interests of all men is the brilliant discovery of the classical economists.”

“The ability of a country to produce is what determines its standard of living.”

“Socialism is a system of organized plunder.”

“It is government intervention that is the cause of inflation, not the actions of private citizens.”