Home / Library / Coercion Destroys Wealth Notable Quote "Every act of coercion that creates obstacles to exchange is a destroyer of wealth." — Salin, Pascal Context: From Libéralisme (Odile Jacob, 2000), on the fundamental economic cost of state intervention, any restriction on voluntary exchange destroys value that would otherwise have been created Topics trending_up Free Market import_export Free Trade error Coercion analytics Economics flag Liberty