One accumulates or one gets accumulated.

Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

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

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

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

The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.

Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning faith in the ability of the market to guide the system to its point of highest return. The market — that wonderful social machine — would take care of society's needs if it was left alone. "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production," he wrote.