Integrative power [is] the ultimate power.

The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside..

The concept of a value-free science is absurd..

[on the theory of the firm] It is exactly analogous to the analysis of the reactions of a consumer by means of indifferent curves. Indeed, a consumer….

The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable em….

[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information regarding its te….

The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have their own stre….

Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics and politics: what was intended t….

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist..

One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it..

As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir, an infinite source o….

Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long..

There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they do the economist or ….

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought..

It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous old definition attributed to J….

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen..

[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of the….

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other..

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we l….

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only s….

The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of personality itself. When we ask….