“That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.”

—  Paul A. Baran

Source: The Political Economy Of Growth (1957), Chapter Four, Standstill and Movement Under Monopoly Capitalism, II, p. 119

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American Marxist economist 1909–1964

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