Why Not Capitalism? Quotes

“La «búsqueda de rentas a través de privilegios injustos» se refiere a las ganancias que buscan corporaciones, gremios, sindicatos o cualquier otro grupo de interés al hacer lobby frente al gobierno para que manipule las leyes o regulaciones en su favor.”
― Jason Brennan, Capitalismo, ¿por qué no?

“Una política tiene problemas de «riesgo moral» cuando induce a gente a tomar riesgos o malas decisiones porque ellas no enfrentan los costos de éstas sino que los externalizan hacia otras personas. Así,”
― Jason Brennan, Capitalismo, ¿por qué no?

“embargo, a diferencia de los Estados-Nación contemporáneos, en donde grupos de interés especiales compiten para lograr utilizar el aparato Estatal para abusar de los demás, estos Estados «mínimos»”
― Jason Brennan, Capitalismo, ¿por qué no?

“In a class I teach on political economy, I illustrate the concept of gains from trade by doing an in-class experiment. As students enter, I give each of them a different candy bar. I ask them to rate the candy they received on a scale of 1–10, with 1 meaning they hate the candy and 10 meaning they love the candy. I then add up their scores. (For instance, in a fall 2013 seminar with 19 students, the total was 103.) After, I tell them they are free to make trades with any willing partner they wish. Most students make a trade, and everyone who trades is happier with her new candy than she was with the old. After all trading is ceased, I ask them to rate the candy they now have. Usually, the total value of the candy goes up 30–50%. (For instance, in the fall 2013 seminar, the final total was 149.) I then ask students, is there some way we could have made it possible to have even higher gains from trade? Usually, they conclude that if we had even more students trading a greater variety of candy bars (or even things other than candy bars), the gains would have been even higher. And so, in 10 minutes, the students discover first hand what Adam Smith explained in the first few pages of the Wealth of Nations (1981): the greater the size of the market, the greater the potential prosperity we can all enjoy.”
― Jason F Brennan, Why Not Capitalism?