There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

One of the most important skills of the economist, therefore, is that of simplification of the model. Two important methods of simplification have been developed by economists. One is the method of partial equilibrium analysis (or microeconomics), generally associated with the name of Alfred Marshall and the other is the method of aggregation (or macro-economics), associated with the name of John Maynard Keynes.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.

The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.