Market Logic Quotes

#1. Right now, the triumph of market logic, with its ethos of domination and fierce competition, is paralyzing almost all serious efforts to respond to climate change.

Naomi Klein

#2. MySchool not OurSchools. In the basic logic of policy, there is now no difference between Labor and Liberal/National parties. The unchallenged assumption of national and state policy is that whatever problem exists, market logic can fix it.

Raewyn W. Connell

#3. Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.

Ben Lerner

#4. How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

William Gaddis

#5. I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy ... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

Jose Mujica

#6. Thought is the greatest of pleasures - pleasure itself is only imagination - have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

Gustave Flaubert

#7. There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

Anthony Lewis

#8. He didn't worry about how screwed-up the market for some security became because he knew that eventually it would be disciplined by logic: Businesses either thrived or failed. Loans either were paid off or were defaulted upon.

Michael Lewis

#9. First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955).

Paul Samuelson

#10. To make this world joyful, let your heart overflow with joy.

Debasish Mridha

#11. It was frustrating and exhausting to gather bits of disconnected information without understanding how it all fitted together.

Wendy Percival

#12. My head is full of seeing you see me.

Julie Berry

#13. Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

Paul Samuelson