Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

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

If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them.

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under seperate national governments - there is an ever-changing pattern of deficits and surpluses.

It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.

In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation.