"It may strike us as odd that the idea of gain is a relatively modern one; we are schooled to believe that man is esse…"

"Nobody wanted this commercialization of life."

"The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece."

"Even today — in blithe disregard to his actual philosophy — Smith is generally regarded as a conservative economist, …"

"David Ricardo saw that the escalator worked with different effects on different classes, that some rode triumphantly …"

"But while Ricardo, the economist, walked like a god (although he was a modest and retiring person), Malthus was releg…"

"The distribution of wealth, therefore, depends on the laws and customs of society."

"But despite the clarion words of the Manifesto, the demonic note was not a call for a revolution of communism; it was…"

"But the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a mat…"

"He who enlists a man's mind wields a power even greater than the sword or the scepter."