I begin with the renaming of the system. It used to be capitalism. But that evokes [Karl] Marx and [John] Rockefeller. So now we speak of the market system. That is a nice bland expression, which forgets those off-color references.

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

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of technical innovation (which I concede, although everyone emphasizes it too much), and much more - including, of course, the rate of inflation.