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> [Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-krugman/our-popular-economics-writers-however-are-not-in-the-business-of/)

[Paul Krugman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-krugman/)

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> [ “\[T\]he ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/t-he-ideas-of-economists-and-political-philosophers-both-when-they/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-maynard-keynes/the-ideas-of-economists-and-political-philosophers-both-when-they-are/)

[John Maynard Keynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-maynard-keynes/)

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> [In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/in-short-competition-has-to-shoulder-the-responsibility-of-explaining/)

[Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/)

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> [“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-maynard-keynes/the-ideas-of-economists-and-political-philosophers-both-when-they-are-2/)

[John Maynard Keynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-maynard-keynes/)

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