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.

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.

We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.

Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.

Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

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