The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society

If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms....such a society will be better able to innovate...since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge.

Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time.

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.