My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market.
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.
Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.
There is no pure free-market economy.
My view is that the U.S. market will eventually join the emerging markets on the downside because if you take a bearish view about emerging economies, you cannot be too optimistic about the U.S. because for many U.S. corporations, 50 percent or more ...
In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need s...
The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public schools, with a large segment of ...
A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.
I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.
The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.
A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.
In history, the evidence is overwhelming: Stock market bottoms happen, and then stocks jolt upwards while the economy keeps getting worse - sometimes by a lot and for a long time.
I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.
