Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

The discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.