George Reisman
George Reisman
George Gerald Reisman is an American economist and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University. He is the author of The Government Against the Economy, which was praised by both F. A. Hayek and Henry Hazlitt, and Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics. He is known as an advocate of free market or laissez-faire capitalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth13 January 1937
CountryUnited States of America
George Reisman quotes about
government civilization environmental
Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is....Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of an industrial civilization will have no great difficulty in coping with it-that is, of course, if their ability to use energy and to produce is not crippled by the environmental movement and by government controls otherwise inspired.
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The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In the industrialized world, the average person today enjoys a standard of living superior to that of kings and emperors of the past. The whole world's population is capable of enjoying the same marvelous results, if it adopts economic freedom.
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The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is more likely to regard it as a virtual parent, concerned only with protecting and helping him