Economic Philosophy Quotes by Robert Heilbroner

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• The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.
• Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed…
• Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits…
• Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community;…
• Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay…
• The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
• One accumulates or one gets accumulated.
• If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.
• We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.
• Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.
• Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

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