“I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.” WayMeanDoeMomentsTodayFormSimpleModernAmountPureCapitalismCaughtDefinitionsSurrenderAll TimeDominantOld Fashioned Author:Alain Badiou
“Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.” ProcessSimpleCapitalismComplexesRegulationIncentives Author:Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
“The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.” WantNeedsGivingFeelsStuffSinSimpleGracePossibilityObjectsMaterialsCapitalismSillyHeroicUrgencyCivicsSilly Stuff Author:Adam Gopnik
“The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.” PeopleEnoughStoriesGovernmentJobsOrderGrowsSimpleCitiesPlansPromiseTaxesCapitalismIncreaseCreatorSpendingCampaignsIncomeEmploymentInequalityGenerousRepeatsVotingDetroitBankruptcyBoostPensionGovernment SpendingIncome InequalityJob CreatorsPension Plans Author:Ben Shapiro
“There's a sense in which Marx does contribute to the fund of human knowledge, and we can no more dismiss him than we can [George] Hegel or [Jean-Jacques] Rousseau or [Baruch] Spinoza or [Charles] Darwin; you don't have to be a Darwinian to appreciate Darwin's views, and I don't have to be a Marxist to appreciate what is valid in a number of [Karl] Marx's writings-and Marx would call that a form of simple commodity production rather than capitalism.” WritingHumansDoeFormSimpleViewsNumbersCapitalismAppreciateProductionsFundCommodityMarxistHegelHuman KnowledgeSpinozaJean Jacques RousseauJacques Rousseau Author:Murray Bookchin
“India has the largest number of hungry people. Yet it's an outcome of precisely the same mechanism. It's the control of agriculture that drives down the price it paid for food that it buys from farmers, who are the poorest people. Then you're paying very little for food. You're underpaying the poorest people in any society. Then they're marketing to us the things that are most profitable to them. And those are the things that are packaged and processed and what-have-you. That means you have the simple thing of the explosion of obesity and hunger as a result of capitalism in our food system.” PeopleMeanSimpleCapitalismMarketingHungerHungryFarmersSimple ThingsObesity Author:Raj Patel
“Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.” PeopleWayUnderstandingSimpleTechnologyCarDrugCapitalismRewardsCreatorValuableFirmMakersImaginativeGood FoodProvidersValuable Things Author:Geoff Mulgan
“Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could be lent. The bank then got interest. The borrower then had a deposit that he could spend. But the original deposit still stood to the credit of the original depositor. That too could be spent. Money, spendable money, had been created. Let no one rub his or her eyes. It's still being done-every day. The creation of money by a bank is as simple as this, so simple, I've often said, that the mind is slightly repelled.” NeedsMindSaidStillsDoneEyeLeftInterestSimpleKnownPrinciplesCreationDiscoveryCapitalismOriginalsCreditElsewhereHer EyesBeing DoneDepositsAmsterdamBorrowers Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.” WellsRealValuesWealthSimpleInspiringNumbersSpecialSourceCapitalismCapacityInsanityCollectivesPathologyIntrinsic ValueReal Wealth Author:David Korten
“The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have to manifest a genuine understanding not only of the anxieties of their employees but of all taxpayers. Those chief executives who succeed will be those who imbue in their businesses very simple, commonsense standards of decency” RunningUnderstandingSimpleBusinessEconomicSucceedAnxietyStandardsCapitalismEconomicsManagementGenuineChiefsVisibleEmployeeExecutivesManifestDecencyTaxpayersDownturnChief ExecutivesEconomic Downturn Author:Robert Peston
“Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or communists, we are proponents of regulated capitalism and, I might add, people who have read American history.” PeopleNeedsMightPoliticalSimpleCapitalismAddDemocraticLibertarianCommunistAmerican HistoryPremisesPolitical SystemsPopulism Author:Molly Ivins
“Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.” MayTwoWarRealEndsFactsSeemsPastSimpleTroublePlanetsCapitalismCrisisGravesTricksDespiteIdeologyDestroyingShoppingStrategicBrillianceGraspingCardinalsDelusional Author:Arundhati Roy