Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losses caused by the restrictions imposed are greater or less than the gains derived from the elimination of costly conflict.

[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of the toolbag of the economist and one which he can often contribute usefully to other sciences which are occasionally apt to get lost in the trackless exfoliations of purely dynamic systems.

The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.

[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.

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

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.