QotD: "The moving parts of economies are men ... "

"The moving parts [of economies] are men, that is, beings capable of learning, reflecting, reasoning, of making errors and of correcting them, and consequently of making the mechanism itself better or worse. They are capable of pain and pleasure, and in that respect they are not only the wheels, but the springs of the machine. They are also the motive forces, for the source of the power is in them. They are more than that, for they are the ultimate object and raison d’être of the mechanism, since in the last analysis the problems of its operation must be solved in terms of their individual pain or pleasure."
~ Frédéric Bastiat, from his book Economic Harmonies

[Hat tip Force For Good]

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