Surpluses Quotes
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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In return, US surpluses of genetically engineered maize (banned in the European Union) were being dumped on the horn of Africa, in the form of emergency aid.
michel chossudovsky— Chapter 9, Wreaking Ethiopia's Peasant Economy, p. 141
At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under seperate national governments — there is an ever-changing pattern of deficits and surpluses.
joan robinson— Chapter 19, The Need For A Reconsideration, p. 218
Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of America farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.
wendell berry— The Unsettling of America : Culture & Agriculture (1996), p. 62
" not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?"
david harvey— Chapter 13, Crisis In The Space Economy Of Capitalism, p. 445
To hoard surpluses of grain and other food products at a time when the people in Petrograd, in Moscow, and in dozens of non-agricultural uyezds are not only suffering from a shortage of bread, but are cruelly starving, is an enormous crime deserving the most ruthless punishment.
— Collected Works, Vol. 42, pp. 94–95[ ].
In return, US surpluses of genetically engineered maize (banned in the European Union) were being dumped on the horn of Africa, in the form of emergency aid.
— Chapter 9, Wreaking Ethiopia's Peasant Economy, p. 141
