Paul A. Baran

The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed…

— Paul A. Baran

Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of…

— Paul A. Baran

The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my…

— Paul A. Baran

" many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating…

— Paul A. Baran

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

— Paul A. Baran

That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.

— Paul A. Baran

It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in…

— Paul A. Baran

To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of…

— Paul A. Baran

The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant…

— Paul A. Baran

Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism…

— Paul A. Baran

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

— Paul A. Baran

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and…

— Paul A. Baran

Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide…

— Paul A. Baran

One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that…

— Paul A. Baran

By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all…

— Paul A. Baran

Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the…

— Paul A. Baran

Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic…

— Paul A. Baran

The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the…

— Paul A. Baran

For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism…

— Paul A. Baran

But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist…

— Paul A. Baran