“The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.” TwoDifferentPhilosophyPoliticalOpinionMysteryIntellectualStandardsEconomicsTasksWeightFunctionCustomersPreservesBusinessmanMottoHostilityPopular Opinion Author:Bertrand de Jouvenel
“The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.” MatterStatesGovernmentIndividualWealthPoorPowerEconomyRichClearImagineEffectsBecomingEconomicsIncomeWealthyConsideringDistribution Book:The Ethics of Redistribution Source: The Ethics of Redistribution