"The cause of waves of unemployment is not 'capitalism' but governments denying enterprise the right to produce good money." - F. A. Hayek "There is an involuntary element in all unemployment, in the sense that no one chooses bad luck over good; there is also a voluntary element in all unemployment, in the sense that however miserable one's current work options, one can always choose to accept them." - Robert E. Lucas, Jr. "Unemployment is a problem of wages, not of work." - Ludwig von Mises "Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited." - Ludwig von Mises "Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment." - Ludwig von Mises "Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle." - Ludwig von Mises "What's the use of being a genius if you can't use it as an excuse for being unemployed?" - Gerald Barzan "A man is only unemployed when he is both not employed and also desires to be employed." - A. C. Pigou, 1933 "The long-range solution [to high unemployment] is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others... We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork." - Milton Friedman, _U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT; March 7, 1977_ "Depression and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market, but by government interference in the economy." - Ludwig von Mises, _The Theory of Money and Credit_