As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on coloniz­ing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.

An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party.

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.