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"[J]ustice is as important as efficiency."
"Power is the ability to control the action or thought of others. ...The oligarchs use their power also to control the thinking. They invested heavily... to control the thinking of the population."

John Komlos is an American economic historian of Hungarian descent and former holder of the chair of economic history at LMU Munich.
"[J]ustice is as important as efficiency."
"[I]n Europe the quantity of land under cultivation could be expanded only slowly; therefore, population growth ran again into Malthusian ceilings in the eighteenth century. The subsequent rise in food prices led to a decline in consumption, particularly of meat, because the for meat was much greater than that of grains."
"[T]here are better ways to measure progress than in terms of money."
"Today 21% of [total] annual income goes to 1% of households. ...That cannot be the basis of a good democracy."
"[T]eachers of economics should admit... that while markets do well in some circumstances they only do so within an appropriate institutional framework and... in others... [they] often tip the stream of benefits toward a few insiders."
"The economic playing field is not level."