Rudolf Hilferding Quotes

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.

Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

A market economy is a tool—a valuable and effective tool—for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values sweep into every aspect of human endeavor. It is a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

Capitalism does not require us to hold a particular set of cognitive beliefs; it only requires that we act as if certain beliefs (about money, commodities etc) are true. The rituals are the beliefs, beliefs which, at the level of subjective self-description, may well be disavowed.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world has discovered, is through the system known as capitalism - the system of private property, free markets, and free enterprise.

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully they get a return on that investment. I don't think there's anything wrong with good old American capitalism.

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

I do believe in the free market.

Capitalism works.

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.