We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.

Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure land rent is in the nature of a 'surplus' which can be taxed heavily without distorting production incentives or efficiency. A land value tax can be called 'the useful tax on measured land surplus'.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.