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Greed, Capitalism and Human Nature

“…The often-assailed greed and avarice associated with capitalism are in fact characteristics of human nature, not of market capitalism, and affect all economic regimes.” — Alan Greenspan, Financial Times Deutschland, January 31

“The mutual-aid tendency…is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.” — Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), Mutual Aid: A factor of Evolution