You can't have a market without government, because governments create the rules of competition and enforce fairness in the markets, and they build t…

- Douglas Massey

The United States, after all, was founded by men of liberal sentiment who were seeking to promote the greatest good for the greatest number, by creat…

- Douglas Massey

Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material well-being for a large…

- Douglas Massey

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.

- Douglas Massey

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them in…

- Douglas Massey

I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy.

- Douglas Massey

Globalization, meaning the global expansion of a market economy, is the only way we can guarantee widespread prosperity and peace. A lot of nations a…

- Douglas Massey

I think liberals have to come to terms with the market and embrace market mechanisms as the only way to run a society that produces widespread materi…

- Douglas Massey