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> [The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/the-use-of-mathematics-has-brought-rigor-to-economics-unfortunately/)

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## More by Robert Heilbroner

> [We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/we-turn-to-marx-therefore-not-because-he-is-infallible-but-because-he/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/economists-can-be-called-the-worldly-philosophers-for-they-sought-to/)

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> [The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/the-secret-to-economic-growth-lay-in-the-fact-that-that-each/)

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> [Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/before-economics-can-progress-it-must-abandon-its-suicidal-formalism/)

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> [If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/if-one-could-divine-the-nature-of-the-economic-forces-in-the-world/)

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> [Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/smith-as-we-have-said-was-not-the-proponent-of-any-one-class-he-was-a/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/growth-is-the-mantra-of-our-society-because-the-economy-can-t-remain/)

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> [One accumulates or one gets accumulated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/one-accumulates-or-one-gets-accumulated/)

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> [Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/socialism-has-been-a-great-tragedy-this-century/)

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> [For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/for-one-who-has-read-the-works-of-marx-it-is-frightening-to-look-back/)

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> [Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/less-than-seventy-five-years-after-it-officially-began-the-contest/)

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> [History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/history-as-it-comes-into-our-daily-lives-is-charged-with-surprise-and/)

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> [Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/very-few-of-the-heroes-of-the-golden-age-of-american-finance-had-much/)

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> [Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/capitalism-is-the-only-society-in-human-history-in-which-neither/)

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> [Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/stalinism-is-a-pathology-of-socialism-hitlerism-being-the-apposite/)

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