If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.