If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
