Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of personality itself. When we ask of a man, "What is he?" the answer is usually given in terms of his major role, job, or position in society; he is the place that he fills, a painter, a priest, a politician, a criminal.

[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.