“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
