Political instability Quote by Daron Acemoğlu

“People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should only be a means to ensure to man his material subsistence and…

— Rudolf Rocker

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized ...

— Noam Chomsky

“They’d been trained to make a tangible thing, and to sell the thing for a little more than the thing cost to make, and…

— Brian Alexander

Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

— Bill Gross

“As the U.S. stock market had grown less comprehensible, it had also become more sensationally erratic.”

— Michael Lewis

“The portentous development of our present economic system, leading to a mighty accumulation of social wealth in the hands of privileged minorities and to…

— Rudolf Rocker

I believe that capitalism, at least how it's used by major corporations, and environmental concerns are in opposition. To be ecologically aware, productivity of…

— Henry Rollins

“A crucial part of the modern capitalist economy was the emergence of a new ethic, according to which profits ought to be reinvested in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.

— Zygmunt Bauman

“The markets were now run by technology, but the technologists were still treated like tools. Nobody bothered to explain the business to them, but…

— Michael Lewis

The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote…

— Tim Wu

“We added that the stock component should carry a fair degree of protection against a loss of purchasing power caused by large-scale inflation.”

— M.K. Gandhi