21st Century Capitalism Quotes

“As the citizens of the former Soviet Union are discovering to their consternation, a market system means the end of the long lines for bread that were a curse of life in a society of centralized command, but it also means the introduction of a line that did not exist formerly—namely, standing in line at employment offices, looking for work.”
― Robert L. Heilbroner, 21st Century Capitalism

“It is that wealth is inextricably associated with inequality. This is an insight that we get from a most unlikely source, the first of the great philosophers of capitalism, who wrote that “wherever there is great property, there is great inequality. . . . The affluence of the rich supposes the indigence of the many.” It is Adam Smith speaking, not Karl Marx.11”
― Robert L. Heilbroner, 21st Century Capitalism