The Passions and the Interests

Mark Blyth The notion in the whole book is that it is far better for man to lord it over his bank balance than it is over his fellow man. (Source)

Will Davies The core question in Hirschman’s book is actually in its subtitle: ‘Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph’. Like Weber, Hirschman realised that, first, there is nothing natural about capitalism. (Source)

Robert J Shiller When we reflect on some of the horrors of capitalism, we have to consider that things could have been much worse if we didn’t have this system. Our fights would have been on real battlefields, rather than economic battlefields. (Source)