Nathan Rosenberg quotes:

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response