Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total … - Robert Heilbroner

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We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth interrogating in a novel. That probably accounts for what some have called the book's "sweeping" feel, but I don't know that I set out to be cinematic. I wouldn't know how to do that in a novel, specifically.

Robert Heilbroner

Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is the only society in which the future, the needs for tomorrow, are entirely left to an automatic system.

Community, Effort, History, Needs, Society, Tomorrow

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It's great to have two cars and a swimming pool. But there are disappointments. After you've made some money and acquired some things, and after the initial excitement has passed, life goes on, just as bewildering as it always was, and the great problems of life and death once again come to the fore.

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In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

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The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

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Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

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If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

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