Quotes by Robert Heilbroner

Robert Heilbroner

As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it.

Anxiety

Political

War

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

Economics

Progress

Suicidal

Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is the only society in which the future, the needs for tomorrow, are entirely left to an automatic system.

Community

Effort

Needs

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 for wealth.

Men

Philosopher

Philosophy

For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations steadfastly hewed to the very course which he insisted would lead to their undoing.

Determination

Looks

Undoing

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 the hallmark of capitalism and its Achilles heel, for no business can permanently maintain its prices much above its costs. There is only one way in which profits can be perpetuated; a business-or an entire economy-must grow.

Cost

Growth

Healthy

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

Daily Life

Life Is

Surprise

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.

Economy

Government

Might

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

Divinity

Nature

World

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

Long

Men

Technology

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Accepted

Age

Anxiety

Beer

Book

Capitalism

Century

Church

Class

Comfort

Community

Contests

Cost

Daily Life

Deception

Determination

Disappointment

Divinity

Dream

Economics

Economy

Effort

Example

Faces

Failing

Firsts

Four

Fruit

Government

Growth

Healthy

Helping

Heritage

Hero

Ideas

Infallible

Letting Go

Life Is

Littles

Long

Looks

Mathematics

May

Men

Might

Monsters

Nature

Needs

Past

Pathology

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Quotes by Robert Heilbroner

Robert Heilbroner

As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it.

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

Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is the only society in which the future, the needs for tomorrow, are entirely left to an automatic system.

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 for wealth.

For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations steadfastly hewed to the very course which he insisted would lead to their undoing.

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

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.

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

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

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