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“This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to convince people…

— Steve Almond

“Capitalism is astonishingly efficient at generating new wealth, but it operates beneficently only when the market is shaped by moral forces coming from both…

— Charles W. Colson

“financial transactions have displaced the production of goods or services as the source of private fortunes, distorting the value we place upon different kinds…

— Tony Judt

“If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.”

— Steven D. Levitt

“Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.”

— Amit Kalantri

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

— Ted Malloch

“Great leap forwards in mankind do not take place because of the economic values we place on them. They happen because we strive to…

— David Alejandro Fearnhead

“The virtue of capitalism is that society can take advantage of people’s greed rather than their benevolence, but there is no need to, in…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold business people in contempt for their selfishness and greed, in fact…

— Steven Pinker

“I believe the free enterprise system is not an economic alternative. It's a moral imperative.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

“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