Book Quote by Robert Heilbroner

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

— Robert Heilbroner

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive…

— Robert Heilbroner

The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but…

— Robert Heilbroner

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

— Robert Heilbroner

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

— Robert Heilbroner

Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy…

— Robert Heilbroner

Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits are both…

— Robert Heilbroner

One accumulates or one gets accumulated.

— Robert Heilbroner

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

— Robert Heilbroner

For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations…

— Robert Heilbroner

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

— Robert Heilbroner

History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

— Robert Heilbroner