In the normal course of events, when we demand things like better welfare, health care or education, governments tell us that it isn’t possible.
Everyone's a socialist in a crisis, 21 March 2020
“One of the most prevalent ideological mantras of Western capitalism is that the market should rule. But as the latest health and economic crises demonstrate, capitalists soon forget their worship of the market when times get tough. They scream for government money, and plenty of it. It turns out that “the market” is fine when it comes to whipping workers to accept lower wages, but when it comes to lower profits, the market can go hang.”
Everyone's a socialist in a crisis, 21 March 2020
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Joel Blau and Mimi Abramovitz, The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy (Oxford University Press: 2010) p. 68

A Minimum of Effort http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9310. The American Prospect. (March 10, 2005)
Studies in Mutualist Political Economy (2007), Chapter 4.
Studies in Mutualist Political Economy (2007)
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter One, Nature of Political Economy, p. 19

Source: Principles of Economics (1998-), Ch. 7. Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets; p. 150
“There’s this about a farm: when the market’s good there’s money, and when it’s bad there’s food.”
Source: More Than Human (1953), Chapter 1, p. 34

“The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.”
Dissenting, Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co., 417 U.S. 506, 526 (1974)
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