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Quotes

8

Economic literature

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

1924

★ 6.9

Not a "gay science," I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate, and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one: what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.

1849

★ 5.2

Trickle-down theory—the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

John Kenneth Galbraith

1992

★ 3.5

Economic literature

One of the main effects…of orthodox traditional economics was…a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.

1937

★ 3.5

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Books

7

The Wealth of Nations

1776★ 8.2

Capital

1867★ 7.5

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

John Maynard Keynes

1936★ 7.1

The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich Hayek

1944★ 6.9

The Worldly Philosophers

Robert Heilbroner

1953★ 6.6

Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

1817★ 6.2

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