"This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security."
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"Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science."
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"Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy"
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"Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it."
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"Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific."
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"I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents."
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"Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity."
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"Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?"
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"Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure."
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"Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine."
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"We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals."
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"Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable."
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