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

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

There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people.

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

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

Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.