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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

“Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.”

Men World Way Long Realizing Economy Objects Essentials Capitalism Profit Productions Features Capitalist New Ways Maximum Profitable Margins World Economy Profit Margin

Book:The Capitalist World-Economy

Source: The Capitalist World-Economy

“Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.”

Capitalism Competition Features Crucial Ruthless Unforgiving

Book:Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

“Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system.”

Heart Doe Existence Capitalism Labor Connections Essence Inequality Features Operations Instability

Author:Herbert Schiller

“The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer.”

Two Real Turns Politics Poor Economy Rich Capitalism Essence Competition Profit Real Life Features Abstract Liberalism Killers Profit Maximization

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many.”

“Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.”

Character Capitalism Contrary Features Our Society Ownership Dependence Precarious

Book:An Essay on the Restoration of Property

Source: An Essay on the Restoration of Property

“World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for war. During the Depression very modest outlays for the unemployed seemed socially debilitating, economically unsound. Now expenditures many times greater for weapons and soldiers were perfectly safe. It's a difference that still persists.”

“The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.”

Needs Principles Mass Capitalism Method Marketing Productions Features Characteristics Capitalist Mass Production

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.”

Ability Capitalism Workers Bread Permanent Features Capitalist Unemployment Sustenance

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all.”

Mean Doe Capitalism Contrary Features Characteristics Etc Anarchy Tranquility Anarchism Bloodshed Robbery Monstrosity Peace And Tranquility Arson

Author:August Spies

“Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity”

Mean Ends Individual Nations Higher Capitalism Features Entity Free Market Totalitarianism Road To Serfdom

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.”

Economy Prove Capitalism Advantage Features Characteristics Mechanism Capitalist Socialist Flexibility Paradoxical Socialist Economy

Book:Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970

Source: Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970