Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.

I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all.

Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.