Henry Calvert Simons Professions : Economist Born : October 9, 1899 Died : June 19, 1946 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Henry Calvert Simons Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the Henry Calvert Simons political leader students Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks and charlatans - not to mention the possibilities of the book as the economic bible of a fascist movement. Henry Calvert Simons irritation idols book Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production. The only simple property system is that of a slave society with a single slave owner - which, significantly, is the limiting case of despotism and of monopoly. Departure from such a system is a fair measure of human progress. Henry Calvert Simons slave-owners organization simple The libertarian good society lies... in the maximum dispersion of property compatible with effective production or, as process, in progressive reconciliation of conflicts between equality and efficiency. Such process involves increasing dispersion both of wealth among persons and families and of proximate productional control among enterprises or firms. Henry Calvert Simons politics wisdom lying Similar Authors Bryan Caplan economist Burton Malkiel economist Bruno Frey economist Brian Wesbury economist Branko Milanovic economist Andrew Samwick economist All Authors
