The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated.