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The place of any good in this scale of values is determined ultimately by the strength of the subjective demand for it.

— Wilhelm Röpke Economics of the Free Society (1937)

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The processes peculiar to economic life in a free society make evident the fundamental superiority of the spontaneous order over the commanded order.

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The questionable things of this world come to grief on their nature, the good ones on their own excesses.

A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market (1958)

We seem to have proved the existence of God in yet another way: by the practical consequences of His assumed non-existence.

A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market (1958)

However, and here we return again to our main theme, we would merely be deluding ourselves if we drew such a sharp dividing line between the realm of the spirit and the conditions of man's existence.

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