"As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny……" — Gunnar Myrdal

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

— Gunnar Myrdal

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20 Quotes by Gunnar Myrdal

Gunnar Myrdal has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in…
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed…
It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and…
America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.
Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power,…
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies…
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as…
So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America,…
In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries,…
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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