The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness. — 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 Image
The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the few. But a new element of unrest has been added: a growing awareness that mass poverty is caused by defective institutions that prevent our harnessing the physical capabilities of science, engineering, management and labor to create… — 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 production, but rather a yardstick for measuring economic input, economic outtake and the relative values of the real goods and services of the economic world. Money provides a method of measuring obligations, rights, powers and privileges.… — 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 Image
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 the politicians are going to yield to the emotions. I think the corporations are wrong about that. I think the companies will have to give in only at insignificant levels. Because the companies are too strong,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 rivet the Black man to the least remunerative section of the economy forever. The best such prospects offer are the dissatisfactions of blue-collar life. The big money ain't in pumping rationed gas in an Amoco station leased in… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share
