Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share
Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share
The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share
Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share
If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share
Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share
Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits are both… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share
For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share
Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share
History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share
Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share
Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share
Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share
