There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.