Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

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.

All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

The spirit should never grow old.

If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries