There was no adverse history here, in fact no history at all. It would have been hard, indeed, to find a more meaningless designation - this a reason for the choice. ...

So it is of the market system we teach the young. It is of this, as I've said, that sophisticated political leaders, compatible journalists and many scholars speak. No individual or firm is thus dominant. No economic power is evoked. There is nothing here from Marx or Engels. There is only the impersonal market, a not wholly innocent fraud. ...

Another name for the system does come persuasively to the eye and ear: "the Corporate System." None can doubt that the modern corporation is a dominant force in the present-day economy, and certainly so in the United States. Nonetheless, allusions to it are used with caution or not at all. Sensitive friends and beneficiaries of the system do not wish to assign definitive authority to the corporation. Better the benign reference to the market.