By this time, the era of cut-and-run economics ought to be finished. Such an economy cannot be rationally defended or even apologized for. The proofs of its immense folly, heartlessness, and destructiveness are everywhere.If you can control a people’s economy, you don’t need to worry about its politics; its politics have become irrelevant.In a totalitarian economy, any "political liberties" that the people might retain would simply cease to matter.The citizen thus becomes an economic subject.
Wendell Berry