Empty Consolation Quotes by David Landes

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• In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are…
• Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities
• This world is divided roughly into three kinds of nations: those that spend lots of money to keep their weight down; those…
• If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas
• It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice
• If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.
• Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

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