Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter One, Nature of Political Economy, p. 14
“The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.”
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Three, Dynamics Of Political Economy, p. 85
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Source: The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves. (2009), p. 10

Diary (15 May 1878)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Context: General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is how to distribute most generally and equally the property of the world. As a rule, where education is most general the distribution of property is most general.... As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property.

Source: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 8, The Geography of the Internet, p. 212

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 4, The World Bank and Woman's Rights, p. 67

Speech in Newcastle (2 October 1891), quoted in A. W. Hutton and H. J. Cohen (eds.), The Speeches of The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone on Home Rule, Criminal Law, Welsh and Irish Nationality, National Debt and the Queen's Reign. 1888–1891 (London: Methuen, 1902), p. 377.
1890s

“Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.”
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 29.

“The lust of lucre has so totally seized upon mankind, that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they to possess their wealth.”
Ea invasit homines habendi cupido, ut possideri magis quam possidere videantur.
Letter 30, 4.
Letters, Book IX

“Rather than building the economy for all of us, we are mining the bottom to benefit the top.”
David Cay Johnston: The Perils Of Our Growing Inequality (Jun 1, 2014)

On Behalf of the Movement of Nonaligned Countries (1979)