We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

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.

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.