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The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Milton Friedman

History

Capitalism

Freedom

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Capitalism

Result

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

Eugene V. Debs

Capitalism

Chicago

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.