Free Markets

Out of false theories of employment, money, and interest, Keynes has distilled a fantastically wrong theory of capitalism and of a socialist paradise erected out of paper money.

Trade is nothing but the release of what one has in abundance to obtain some other thing one wants.

The violator of his property is not the maverick company that pays the bribe, but the producer who violates his contract with the sponsor by accepting it.

Throughout history groups of men calling themselves 'the government' have attempted to gain a compulsory monopoly of the commanding heights of the economy and society.

A person cannot do right except in a situation where there is also the option of doing wrong.

It is striking to realize that dikes were not only built without the state, but also that the dike areas can be regarded as seceding territories, which came close to private-law societies.

The laws of economics are not suspended by bureaucrats' political interference, and prices do not respond to their dictates. Rather, economic chaos results. 

Rather than look to the state to transform flawed creatures into saints, we should strive to take human beings as they are and direct their energies into productive outlets rather than antisocial outlets.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Crusoe economics can aid greatly in solving such problems of political philosophy as the nature and role of liberty, property, and violence.