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“Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.”

“The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.”

Attention Economy Conditions Demand Commodity Deep Thought Eyeballs

Author:Laura Miller

“As a matter of fact, capitalist economy is not and cannot be stationary. Nor is it merely expanding in a steady manner. It is incessantly being revolutionized from within by new enterprise, i.e., by the intrusion of new commodities or new methods of production or new commercial opportunities into the industrial structure as it exists at any moment.”

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Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a 'science of people' but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities.”

People Men World Real Political Economy Subjects Objects Essence Commodity Bourgeois Disregard Inhuman Political Economy

Book:The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

Source: The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

“The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.”

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Book:The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

“Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.”

Country Nations Economy Fire Products Greed Debt Screens Obedience Investors Commodity Deficit Rating Electrical Kindles Flux Stock Exchange

Author:B. W. Powe

“The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.”

Source: The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle

“Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.”

Today Energy Economy Commodity Sellers Buyers

Author:Kenneth Lay

“Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.”

Economy Products Profit Judged Commodity

Book:Silences

Source: Silences

“If you like what Wall Street did for the housing market, you'll love what Wall Street is doing for commodities. Goldman's ability to influence any portion of the price for a key component of the industrial economy is simply unacceptable.”

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Author:Carl Levin