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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 with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/the-secret-to-economic-growth-lay-in-the-fact-that-that-each/)

[Robert Heilbroner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-heilbroner/)

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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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