In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy.

There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those who regard humans as creatures in the biological world.

The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over Congress and the White House and that's increasing sharply with sharp concentration of private power and escalating cost of elections and so on.

The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover.

You have to rely on yourself and your associates - gifts don't come from above; you're going to win them, or you won't have them.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.