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

  Robert Heilbroner

  Daily Life, Life Is, Surprise

  "The Future As History". Book by Robert L. Heilbroner, Chapter I, Part 1, The Shock of Events, p. 13, 1960.

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• Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Example, Socialism, Pathology

  Robert L. Heilbroner (1980). “Marxism: For and Against”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Tragedy, Socialism, Century

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• If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Government, Might, Economy

  Robert L. Heilbroner (1986). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers”

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• Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

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  Religious, Beer, Church

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

  Robert Heilbroner

  Suicidal, Progress, Economics

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• Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Technology, Accepted, Strive

  "The Future As History". Book by obert Heilbroner, Chapter I, Part 8, The Marxian Blow, p. 41, 1960.

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• In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Monsters, Littles, Wreckage

  Robert L. Heilbroner (2011). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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

  Robert Heilbroner

  Turns, Infallible

  Robert L. Heilbroner (1980). “Marxism: For and Against”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .

  Robert Heilbroner

  Hero, Reality, Age

  "The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers". Book by Robert L. Heilbroner, Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen, p. 224, 1953.

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• Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Today, World, Capitalism

  "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter II, Part 7, The Drift Away From Capitalism, p. 94, 1960.

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