Monty Pelerin's World

Economics, Finance and Politics Through The Prism of Classical Liberalism

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas Jefferson
It may be necessary to make a public utility out of agriculture … Every plowed field would have its permit sticking up on its post.
Henry Wallace

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
Albert J. Nock
Everything we have done in response to the 9-11 attacks, from the Patriot Act to the war in Iraq, has reduced freedom in America.
Ron Paul

Timely Economic Analysis from Dilbert????

By Monty Pelerin, on September 7th, 2009

It appears that the writer of Dilbert is a better economist than many Nobel laureates who are proclaiming “Green Shoots.”

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft
It is easy to confuse a falling standard of living with deflation.
Monty Pelerin
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen
Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand

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