Robert Heilbroner Quotes About Economics

Quotes about: Economics

• The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Rigor Mortis, Use, Economics

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

  Robert Heilbroner

  Suicidal, Progress, Economics

• The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution , that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Might, Saws, Fruit

  "The Worldly Philosophers". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter XI, Beyond the Economic Revolution, p. 307, 1953.

• Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Economics, Mathematics, Rigor

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