“It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.”

Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 2, Capital, p. 51

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American journalist 1943

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