“Inclusion creates economic growth. So the neoliberal idea that inclusion is this fancy luxury to be afforded if and when we have growth is both wrong and backwards. The economy is people. Including more people in more ways is what causes economic growth in market economies...The third principle is the purpose of the corporation is not merely to enrich shareholders. The greatest grift in contemporary economic life is the neoliberal idea that the only purpose of the corporation and the only responsibility of executives is to enrich themselves and shareholders. The new economics must and can insist that the purpose of the corporation is to improve the welfare of all stakeholders: customers, workers, community and shareholders alike.”
“So how do we leave neoliberalism behind and build a more sustainable, more prosperous and more equitable society? The new economics suggests just five rules of thumb.First is that successful economies are not jungles, they're gardens, which is to say that markets, like gardens, must be tended, that the market is the greatest social technology ever invented for solving human problems, but unconstrained by social norms or democratic regulation, markets inevitably create more problems than they solve. Climate change, the great financial crisis of 2008 are two easy examples.”
“Zarobki ludzi takich jak ja są setki czy tysiące razy większe od zarobków przeciętnych Amerykanów, ale przecież nie kupujemy z tego powodu sto czy tysiąc razy więcej samochodów.”
“If wealth, power, and income continue to concentrate at the very tippy top, our society will change from a capitalist democracy to a neo-feudalist rentier society like 18th-century France. That was France before the revolution and the mobs with the pitchforks.”
“Cofaliśmy się przez ostatnie 30 lat. Bogaci biznesmeni tacy jak ja, nie stwarzają miejsc pracy. One są raczej konsekwencją systemu ekonomicznego w którym pętla sprzężenia zwrotnego była pobudzana przez konsumentów z klasy średniej – a kiedy oni mają się świetnie, biznesy rosną, zwiększają zatrudnienie i przynoszą zysk właścicielom. Dlatego opodatkowanie bogatych, by finansować inwestycje, przynosi korzyści wszystkim. To wielki interes zarówno dla klasy średniej, jak i dla bogatych.”
“Greed is not good. Being rapacious doesn't make you a capitalist, it makes you a sociopath. And in an economy as dependent upon cooperation at scale as ours, sociopathy is as bad for business as it is for society.... Neoliberal economic theory has sold itself to you as unchangeable natural law, when in fact it's social norms and constructed narratives based on pseudoscience. If we truly want a more equitable, more prosperous and more sustainable economy, if we want high-functioning democracies and civil society, we must have a new economics.”
“Jeśli byłoby prawdą to, że niższe stawki podatkowe i więcej bogactwa dla milionerów prowadzi do tworzenia nowych miejsc pracy, to dzisiaj byśmy tonęli w zalewie pracy. A jednak bezrobocie i niepełne zatrudnienie jest na rekordowych poziomach.”
“Każdy, kto kiedykolwiek prowadził biznes wie, że zatrudnianie nowych ludzi jest dla kapitalistów ostatecznością. Czymś co robimy dopiero wtedy, gdy żądają tego podniesione wymagania klienta. W tym sensie, nazywanie nas „pracodawcami” nie jest uzasadnioną nieścisłością – jest fałszywe.”
“Raising wages doesn't kill jobs that creates them because for instance when restaurant owners are suddenly required to pay restaurant workers enough so that now even they can afford a restaurant doesn't shrink the restaurant business it grows it obviously.”
“I have a message for my fellow plutocrats and zillionaires and for anyone who lives in a gated bubble world: Wake up. Wake up. It cannot last. Because if we do not do something to fix the glaring economic inequities in our society, the pitchforks will come for us, for no free and open society can long sustain this kind of rising economic inequality. It has never happened. There are no examples. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state or an uprising.”