Douglas Massey People Quotations

The US wants the labor, but doesn't want to address the risks people take to get here.

The U.S. wants the labor, but doesn't want to address the risks people take to get here.

Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material well-being for a large number of people have to change over time.

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn't turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good.

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.