We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become…

- John Bates Clark

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate bin…

- John Bates Clark

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever o…

- John Bates Clark

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When th…

- John Bates Clark

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry procee…

- John Bates Clark

Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes…

- John Bates Clark

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he rais…

- John Bates Clark

As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases as the int…

- John Bates Clark