To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work undertaken by Marx and by… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line. — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications. — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities. — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction. — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
