Lewis H. Lapham Quote

Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.


Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 197-198 - Money And Class In America (1989)


Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit,...

Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit,...

Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit,...

Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit,...