It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people. — 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
