“There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.” IdeasPoliticalNaturalSimpleClassTechnologyEconomicDangerousEstatesDiscontentAssassinationRippedDisruptiveAvertNatural DeathEconomic ChangeRiddance Author:Robert Heilbroner
“It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.” PeopleSelfDangerousDeceptionOur SocietyMechanismSelf DeceptionQualifications Author:Robert Heilbroner
