I had a white companion (â¦), not a bad chap, but rather too fleshy and with the exasperating habit of fainting on the hot hillsides, miles away from the least bit of shade and water. (â¦) I couldnât help asking him once what he meant by coming there at all. âTo make money, of course. What do you think?â he said, scornfully.
Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness (1899)
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But once money-making wore the label of âinterestsâ and reentered in this disguise the competition with the other passions, it was suddenly acclaimed and even given the task of holding back those passions that had long been thought to be much less reprehensible.
Albert O. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests. Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph (1977)
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For a long time to come the question of capitalism must be in large measure the question of Werner Sombart.
Frank H. Knight, Historical and Theoretical Issues in the Problem of Modern Capitalism (1928/1929)
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