In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product — Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

In a way, underdevelopment is a paradox. Many parts of the world that are naturally rich are actually poor and parts tha — Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Arnold Harberger, Milton Friedman & Co. Inc., your modest proposal of partial equilibrium for the general good is not wi — André Gunder Frank, Economic Genocide In Chile: Monetarist Theory Versus Humanity: Two Open Letters To Arnold Harberger And Milton Friedman

I have had so many Dwellings, Nat, that I know these Streets as well as a strowling Beggar: I was born in this Nest of D — Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

Far from being Eurocentric, my analysis "exoticizes" Europe. Europe is historically aberrant. In some ways this was a hi — Immanuel Wallerstein

the decisive movement toward corporate capitalism began in 1895-1896. — James Livingston

It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All meager, all dry. An — Ursula K. Le Guin

$The double consequence of artifice--to project sentience out onto the made world and in turn to make sentience itself into a complex living artifact--is thus fractured, neatly fractured, into two sepa — Elaine Scarry The Body in Pain$

Money is to an economy as nutrition is to the human body. When central bankers ignore that relationship by providing mor — Said Elias Dawlabani, MEMEnomics: The Next-Generation Economic System

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one — Native American Saying

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? — Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story

The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves — Michael Parenti, Against Empire

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