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“If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital is zero, this may be the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism.”

Ifs Way May Easy Capitalism Features Goods Zero Sensible Efficiency Supposing Supposing That

Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate "efficiency" and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.”

Ideas Government Lasts Values Lines Economic Capitalism Aspect Bottom Communism Corporate Goods Efficiency Bottom Line Public Service Subordinates American Life Economic Power

Author:Ellen Willis

“Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.”

Purpose Taught Capitalism Oppression Efficiency

Author:Anna Louise Strong

“The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.”

“It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.”

“I think on the efficiency level, not only the distribution level, capitalism is a flawed system. It probably has the same virtues as Churchill attributed to democracy: It's the worst system except for any other. And I think that's right, but it cannot be thought that some unmitigated belief in free markets is a cure even from the efficiency point of view.”

Thinking Belief Levels Views Virtue Democracy Worst Capitalism Point Of View Cures Efficiency Distribution Free Market Flawed

Author:Kenneth Arrow

“The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.”

Bigs Capitalism Corporations Remarkable Efficiency Inefficiency Big Corporations

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, which was efficient but also a highly controlling device. There was a problem with the assembly line. It’s so onerous that people dropped out. They couldn’t stand it. They had to hire almost a thousand workers to see if they could get one hundred to stay on.”

Work Capitalism Efficiency Monotony Assembly Line Controlling

Book:Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

Source: Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance