Bernard Crick: Economics

Bernard Crick was British political theorist and democratic socialist. Explore interesting quotes on economics.

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“One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.”

Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p. 94.

“If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.”

A Footnote To Rally Fellow Socialists, p. 234.
In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981

“Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.”

A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 164.
In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981