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“As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.” quote by Gunnar Myrdal — Download Open image

“As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.”

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In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations…

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The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the…

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So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.

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Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

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All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of…

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America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

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The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost…

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It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it…

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Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to…

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America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.

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It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

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Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

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