Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.

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

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

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

It's great to have two cars and a swimming pool. But there are disappointments. After you've made some money and acquired some things, and after the initial excitement has passed, life goes on, just as bewildering as it always was, and the great problems of life and death once again come to the fore.

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

Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits are both the hallmark of capitalism and its Achilles heel, for no business can permanently maintain its prices much above its costs. There is only one way in which profits can be perpetuated; a business-or an entire economy-must grow.