Adapted Quote by John Maynard Keynes

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

— Mark Lynas

“Many historians, many sociologists and psychologists have written at lenght, and with deep concern, about the price that Western man has had to pay…

— Aldous Huxley

“within the capitalist system all methods for raising the social productiveness of labour are brought about at the cost of the individual labourer; all…

— Karl Marx

The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production

— Louis Althusser

“The theory I have in mind is one which does not proceed, as it were, from a doctrine of the intrinsic goodness or righteousness…

— Karl R. Popper

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed…

— Ludwig von Mises

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

— Jeremy Grantham

“[T]he just society is one in which each man may seek the things which belong to his nature. By contrast, a system of economic…

— Russell Kirk

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population…

— Aldous Huxley

“Without any incentives for productivity (capitalistic model), they were quite content do nothing, which unfortunately is the by-product of any system that bases wages…

— Ben Carson

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human…

— Abraham Maslow

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

— Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh