The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years, including recurrent speculative episodes. There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that we're now having another one of those speculative episodes.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

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

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

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

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.