Nothing Is So Treacherous As The Obvious.

For One Thing, To Predict The Advent Of Big Business Was Considering The Conditions Of Marx's Day An Achievement In Itself.

At The Heart Of Capitalism Is Creative Destruction.

I Set Out To Become The Greatest Lover In Vienna, The Greatest Horseman In Austria, And The Greatest Economist In The World. Alas, For The Illusions Of Youth: As A Horseman, I Was Never Really First-rate.

It Is However Always Important To Remember That The Ability To See Things In Their Correct Perspective May Be, And Often Is, Divorced From The Ability To Reason Correctly And Vice Versa. That Is Why A Man May Be A Very Good Theorist And Yet Talk Absolute Nonsense.

The Metal Of Economic Theory Is In Marx's Pages Immersed In Such A Wealth Of Steaming Phrases As To Acquire A Temperature Not Naturally Its Own.