We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Equality of economic opportunity, in the context of private property, means equality of opportunity for the millions of capital-less households of today… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The sooner the world solves its economic problems, the sooner its inhabitants can afford leisure and peace and get on with the… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Two-factor economics makes it clear that our economic problem is not what one-factor (labor-centric) thinkers assert: an inequitable distribution of income. It… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
What have the masses been clamoring for? Jobs and welfare, and they got 'em. They've also got unions and managements like two… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The schemes to set up blacks in cleaning stores, gas stations, hamburger stands and fried-chicken franchises, all the low-profit, low-capital enterprises, will… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical factor of… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
Take Milton Friedman, he sits at his desk pontificating about such bunk as the monetary system being the answer to our problems. The monetary… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
They sense that there's a majority out there and that the emotions are all on the other side-if they can be heard. They think… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners, the same… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
Equality of economic opportunity, in the context of private property, means equality of opportunity for the millions of capital-less households of today to buy,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
If capital produces most of the economy's wealth and income is distributed on the basis of productive input, the individual can hardly reach his… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
All this plan does is make everybody a capitalist. I know that the New York Stock Exchange says there are 25 million shareholders in… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
The schemes to set up blacks in cleaning stores, gas stations, hamburger stands and fried-chicken franchises, all the low-profit, low-capital enterprises, will rivet the… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
The sooner the world solves its economic problems, the sooner its inhabitants can afford leisure and peace and get on with the non-material things… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
