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“It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.”

Seems Happens Next Left Particular Theory Capitalism Fulfilled Prognosis

Book:Contributions to Modern Economics

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.”

Way Trying Happens Capitalism Following Solve Circles Corporate Fraud Trails Good Way Accountants Forensics

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

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

“Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.”

Problem Reality Happens Lying Politics Community Money Class Democracy Policy Wall Taxes Capitalism Trade Property Human Rights Ideology Jail Free Speech Consumerism Facade Partisanship

Author:Cecily McMillan

“Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.”

Way Want Made Happens Results Capitalism Management Organized Willpower Intervention

Book:The Supermanagers: Managing for Success, the Movers and the Doers, the Reasons Why

Source: The Supermanagers: Managing for Success, the Movers and the Doers, the Reasons Why

“What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet.”

Shows Happens House Dog Capitalism Conservative Cleaning Puppets Clean House Enablers Puppet Shows

Author:Charles Stross

“This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.”

Long Hard Happens Fighting Economy Rich Generations Politician Capitalism Corporations New Generation

Author:Kshama Sawant

“I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and we would be a part of that and we would have then not capitalism. We would have values based on human lives, not profit. We would actually transform the kinds of ways people built love and built community. It was a very shocking thing to me, out of the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, to realize that that dream - while I still believed in it - was not going to happen in the way that I had hoped.”

“Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.”

Happens School High School Capitalism Let Me Filmmaker Michigan School Education

Author:Michael Moore

“The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.”

Ideas Happens Capitalism

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.”

Ifs Believe Kind Stills Reality Happens Suffering I Believe Lucky Capitalism Satisfaction Harsh Sublime I Still Believe Humming

Author:George Saunders