A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.

Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man is able to build organizations of a size and complexity far beyond those of the lower animals.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.

Communication can only take place among equals.

[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.