It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them only because 'they necessitate further inroads' upon the capitalist system and are 'unavoidable' as a means of bringing about socialism.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.

The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all privileges hurt the interests of the rest of the nation or at least a great part of it.

Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.

History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.