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System Quotes by Robert Heilbroner
- Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning…
- Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is the…
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- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson