If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market Fraud," January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.