Daniel W Bromley > Quotes

“... it is not acceptable to praise democracy and ubiquitous markets as the way to future prosperity and political stability, and then to turn around and blame imperfect democracy and flawed markets for allowing the very incoherencies that are now on such vivid display around the world. Nor is it acceptable to praise democratic market economies as ideal if only their leaders were more honest and acted with better information. These political-economic systems of such constant acclaim cannot be so ideal if, year after year— often for a century or more— they continue to languish in debilitating dysfunction”
― Daniel W Bromley, Possessive Individualism: A Crisis of Capitalism