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Quote by David Harvey

“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.”

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David Harvey, born on October 31, 1935, is a renowned British geographer, Marxist theorist, and social theorist. He has conducted extensive research in the field of geography, particularly on issues of capital accumulation, urban geography, and postmodern geography. Professor Harvey's work has had a profound impact on academic research and political movements worldwide. more

“We've turned the post-war economy that made America prosperous and rich inside out. Somehow most people believed they could get rich by going into debt to borrow assets that were going to rise in price. But you can't get rich, ultimately, by going into debt. In the end the creditors always win.”

People Winning Economy Rich Prosperous Get Rich

Author:Michael Hudson

“Europe is sort of like the Soviet Union in the '30s and '40s. There was an argument, is it reformable or not? There is a feeling, and I think it's correct, that the European Union, the eurozone, and the euro, is not reformable, as a result of the Lisbon treaties and the other treaties that have created the euro. Europe has to be taken apart in order to be put together not on a right-wing, neoliberal basis, but on a more social basis.”

Thinking Feelings Together Taken Argument Soviet Soviet Union European Union Euro

Author:Michael Hudson

“You could say that the vote to withdraw from Europe is, it's really a vote of the British middle class, the working class, to withdraw from the U.S. neoliberalism that has been running Europe for the last ten years.”

Running Vote Middle Class Working Class

Author:Michael Hudson

“Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.”

Environment Mess

Author:Arthur C. Clarke