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What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century…

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...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological…
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely…
Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth…
What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after…
Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.
Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the…
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and…
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.
Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in…
We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. — Joseph Addison
Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but… — Bill Frist
Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time. — Robin Sharma
I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices… — Thomas Jefferson
In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects...… — Michael Fullan
Innovations until now conceived by no one at all — Israel Kirzner
Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor… — Ludwig von Mises
That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations… — Pope Gregory XVI
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by… — Charles Bowers
I think all great innovations are built on rejections. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of… — James Madison

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