I hope the present volume can... improve the teaching of economics by — John Komlos

"[I]f were not able to shift our paradigms, if we are stuck in the Arrow–Debreu world, then were going to become the neoserfs of the oligarchs. Just like Aldous Huxley predicted in his novel, a Brave New World"

"The growth-at-any-price perspective does not consider... distribution: economic growth will not help the destitute, the uneducated underclass, or the majority of those... unemployed."

"[C]hildren who are attending dysfunctional schools in dysfunctional neighborhoods, people... unable to catch their bearings in... the IT revolution and globalization, the working poor... trapped in a culture of poverty... ought not be treated like machines without feelings."

"Greenspan... out of hand and cold-bloodedly thwarted [warnings of , , Raghuram Rajan, Nouriel Roubini, Peter Schiff, Robert Shiller, Joseph Stiglitz, Nassim Taleb, John Taylor, and] s valiant efforts to regulate derivatives a decade before the meltdown."

"The ideological commitment to "," ...has brought us to our current, precarious situation."

"[W]e should begin... economic analysis with empirical evidence instead rather than on ivory-tower theorizing."