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In this way the world market is, with regard to its immanent dynamic, 'a space in which everyone has...

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The myth of "free choice" begins with "free market" and "free trade". When five transnational corpor...

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Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see re...

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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

... toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivat...

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It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

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Andrei CodrescuZombification: Stories from National Public Radio

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of huma...

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Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...

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The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Our market-intensive societies measure material progress by the increase in the volume and variety o...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a...

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It was the job of people like me to make up reasons, to spin a plausible yarn. And it’s amazing what...

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In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We ...

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