"Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost,……" — Gunnar Myrdal
"Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy"
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Gunnar Myrdal
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20 Quotes by Gunnar Myrdal
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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…
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Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed…
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It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.
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Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and…
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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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Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power,…
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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…
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All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as…
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So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.
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In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America,…
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In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries,…
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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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For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
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