Paul A. Baran famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 hope is an intelligible presentation.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Writing #Notes #Process
That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Mean #Ends #Policy
Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by colonization and by unequal treaties, it became an appendage of the "internal market" of Western capitalism.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Country #Colonization #Treaties
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 the building of railways, to the construction of roads, and to the establishment of power stations.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Giving #Construction #Building
The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Country #Lying #Impact
The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the resistance of urban and rural interests.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Government #Challenges #Able
The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Advancement #Alarms #Helping
As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Lines #Ascent #Hegel
In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Facts #May #Destruction
Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Government #Acting #Bourgeoisie
It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Causes #United States #Investment
One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa .
-- Paul A. Baran

#Thinking #Agency #Doe
But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist order, bourgeois ideology as a whole and with it bourgeois economics began abandoning both reason and history.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Order #Study #Reason
Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work undertaken by Marx and by those whom he inspired.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Organization #Decay #Development
If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Needs #Helping #University
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Essentials #Roles #Economics
Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic phase of capitalism.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Growth #Phases #Economic
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 found only in the demimonde of business, founding new ice cream parlors or "deep freeze subscription clubs".
-- Paul A. Baran

#Past #Ice #Entrepreneur
many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Independent #Shoes #United States
To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Growth #Intellectual #Culture

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