The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.

The free market doesn't exist. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.

Culture changes with economic development.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.

Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.