Jessica’s Reviews > Capitalism and the Historians > Status Update

"It is a truism that men's political and economic ideas depend as much on the experiences of the preceding generation as on the needs of their own". pg. 31

"The complexity of social events in particular is such that, without the tools of analysis which a systematic theory provides, one is almost bound to misinterpret them; and those who eschew the concious use of an explicit and tested logical argument usually merely become the victims of the popular belies of their time" pg. 24

"The widespread emotional aversion to "capitalism" is closely connected with this belief that the undeniable growth of wealth which the competitive order has produced was purchased at the price of depressing the standard of life of the weakest elements of society" pg. 10