If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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Posted by: Abramo Carlesso
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
For the importance of money essentially flows from its being a link between the present and the future.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
I do not know which makes a man more conservative: to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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