America Quote by Nancy MacLean

“Economic growth and technological change are accompanied by what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Creative destruction redistributes not simply income and wealth, but also political power,”

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Urging Koch on in his chosen vocation was something else as well: his belief that his own growing financial success as one of the…

— Nancy MacLean

“It was ironic—the great socialists could only survive by becoming capitalists.” But”

— Jeff Guinn

“While those attracted to the Kochs’ meetings were uniformly conservative, they were not the predictable cartoon villains of conspiracy theories but spanned a wide…

— Jane Mayer

“It said something about the ability of the free marketplace to mold people’s behavior into a socially acceptable pattern. For this was capitalism at…

— Michael Lewis

“In 1992, David Koch likened the brothers’ multipronged political strategy to that of venture capitalists with diversified portfolios. “My overall concept is to minimize…

— Jane Mayer

“The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants.”

— Timothy Simpson

The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Having embraced the Kochs’ free-market ideology and their right to spend unlimited money, the Republican Party was now ironically finding itself sidelined and perhaps…

— Jane Mayer

“CAPITALISM: If everything worked without need of repair, upgrade or replacement, then peaceful minds and prosperity would prevail among the masses rather than just…

— T.F. Hodge