We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

One accumulates or one gets accumulated.

As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.