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For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate…

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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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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. — Malcolm Muggeridge
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely… — Thomas Piketty
Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he… — Russell Baker
Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are… — Unknown Author
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity… — Elena Kagan
Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In indolent vacuity of thought. — William Cowper
A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of… — Misha Collins
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a… — Marcel Proust
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to… — Muhammad Iqbal
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. — Tennessee Williams
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity — George Steiner

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