Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 4 of the late historian Joyce Appleby’s (uneven) 2010 book, The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism:

[I]t can’t be stressed too much that capitalism is as much a cultural as an economic system. A new way of establishing political order emerged. People reversed how they looked at the past and the future. They reconceived human nature. At a very personal level, men and women began making plans for themselves that would once have appeared ludicrous in their ambitious reach.