Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.
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Chapter 1, p. 27John Kenneth Galbraith
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
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Even today — in blithe disregard of his actual philosophy — Smith is generally regarded as a conservative economist, whereas in fact, he was more avowedly hostile to the motives of businessmen than most New Deal economists.
Adam Smith
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The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.
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In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.
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