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

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

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.

Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational.

Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.