innovativeness

Updated: May 17, 2025

Merchants and bankers were the insatiable stomach. But this apparently simplistic analogy masked a schismatic debate. Do the ever changing contents of the economic "stomach", its kaleidoscopic innovativeness, its "permanent revolution" and its propensity to assume "irrational" risks adversely affect this natural order which, after all, is based on tradition and routine?

Samuel Vaknin - The Belgian Curtain: Europe after Communism