Robert Heilbroner

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

— Robert Heilbroner

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's…

— Robert Heilbroner

The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and…

— Robert Heilbroner

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

— Robert Heilbroner

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

— Robert Heilbroner

Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole…

— Robert Heilbroner

Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits…

— Robert Heilbroner

One accumulates or one gets accumulated.

— Robert Heilbroner

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

— Robert Heilbroner

For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so…

— Robert Heilbroner

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

— Robert Heilbroner

History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

— Robert Heilbroner

Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay…

— Robert Heilbroner

Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community;…

— Robert Heilbroner

Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

— Robert Heilbroner

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal…

— Robert Heilbroner

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences…

— Robert Heilbroner

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

— Robert Heilbroner

There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in…

— Robert Heilbroner

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology…

— Robert Heilbroner

Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is…

— Robert Heilbroner

As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general…

— Robert Heilbroner

Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

— Robert Heilbroner

The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.

— Robert Heilbroner

In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is…

— Robert Heilbroner