Genius is a rising stock market.

Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it came to rest. Idle men and idle plant were an aberration, a wholly temporary failing. Keynes showed that the modern economy could as well find its equilibrium with continuing, serious unemployment. Its perfectly normal tendency was to what economists have since come to call an underemployment equilibrium.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought.