Jon Cloke

“Economic growth is quite simply incapable of satisfying this democratic and meritocratic hope, which must create specific institutions for the purpose and not rely solely on market forces or technological progress.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“the upper classes instinctively abandoned idleness and invented meritocracy lest universal suffrage deprive them of everything they owned.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“There's no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.”
― Richard Shaull, Pedagogy of the Oppressed