" many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a U…

- Paul A. Baran

Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or is to be f…

- Paul A. Baran

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

- Paul A. Baran

For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to …

- Paul A. Baran

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

- Paul A. Baran

By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to …

- Paul A. Baran

The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I ho…

- Paul A. Baran

Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wid…

- Paul A. Baran

But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist order…

- Paul A. Baran