Capitalism Quote by Matthew Desmond

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not…

— Abraham Lincoln

“In the late 1970s, growth in Western economies began to slow down and returns on capital began to decline. Governments came under pressure to…

— Jason Hickel

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for…

— Frederic Bastiat

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city.…

— Michael Pollan

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.

— Abraham Lincoln

It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they…

— William Cowper Brann

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor,…

— Leland Stanford

“wages of labour, the profits of stock, or the rent of land.”

— Adam Smith

“In the wake of primitive accumulation, the wage relationship became a seemingly voluntary affair. Workers needed employment and employers wanted workers. In reality, of…

— Michael Perelman

we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of…

— William Stanley Jevons

In the 1850s, as the numbers of Americans who were not invested in the slave system grew, the South's leaders felt they had to…

— Heather Cox Richardson