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The Libertarians also opposed all income and corporate taxes, including capital gains taxes, and called for an end to the prosecution of tax evaders. Their platform called for the abolition too of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the FBI, and the CIA, among other government agencies. It demanded the
... See moreJane Mayer • Dark Money
A key argument in Lincoln’s case against slavery was that it supported an aristocracy determined to undermine America’s promise that “the humblest man [has] an equal chance to get rich with everyone else.”
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
The Use of Knowledge in Society
I will argue that a market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. Markets are consistent with our views of individual liberty.
Charles Wheelan • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
because economics was above all a system of quantified ethics and political power that depended on measurement.
Kim Stanley Robinson • The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
