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• ...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.
• Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,…
• Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory…
• That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even…
• If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.
• The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later…
• Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals…
• There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

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