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Protectionism does not produce wealth, and free trade and economic openness are ultimately in everyo...

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Thomas PikettyCapital in the Twenty-First Century

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds openin...

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But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop...

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There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those...

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Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted...

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There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The s...

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The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

The essential difference between rich societies and poor societies does not stem from any greater ef...

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But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is de...

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The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyl...

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It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philis...

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It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.