"I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds."
Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish sociologist and philosopher known for his analyses of modernity and postmodernity, including the concept of liquid modernity. He was a longtime professor at the University of Leeds.