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

The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.

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

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

It is much more accurate to identify the factors of production as know-how (that is genetic information structure), energy, and materials, for, as we have seen, all processes of production involve the direction of energy by some know-how structure toward the selection, transportation, and transformation of materials into the product

Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful.