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- The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available,… — Ludwig von Mises
- Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things. — John Clapham
- We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In… — Will Durant
- Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money.… — George Soros
- Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize… — Manmohan Singh
- All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the… — A J P Taylor
- The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic… — Ayn Rand
- The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments… — Lawrence Summers
- Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the… — Peter Drucker
- The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history. — Noam Chomsky
- Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic… — Barry Eichengreen
- You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk. — James Surowiecki