Traditional Economy Quotes

People so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies.

The old model for India was to be self-sufficient. It was the ideal India became independent with, that you spin your own thread, make your own clothes.

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

Sufis have always been those that have tried to purify the ethics of Islam and society. And they don't have their hands cut off from the external action at all. For example, the bazaar in which the Sufis were very strong always dominated economic life in Islamic world. They could give a much more sane and Islamic form of activity when the economic life of Islam moved out of the bazaar to new parts of Islamic cities with modernized Muslims, who took it in another light and it became very, very anti Islamic, and much against many of the most profound practices of Islamic societies.

This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.