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

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.

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.