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Robert L. Heilbroner was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some 20 books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers , a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. marzo 1919 – 4. enero 2005
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“But despite the clarion words of the Manifesto, the demonic note was not a call for a revolution of communism; it was a cry born only of frustration and despair.”

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Fuente: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter VI, Karl Marx, p. 128

“Even today — in blithe disregard to his actual philosophy — Smith is generally regarded as a conservative economist, whereas in fact, he is more avowedly hostile to the motives of businessman than most New Deal economists.”

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Fuente: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter III, Adam Smith, p. 62

“The distribution of wealth, therefore, depends on the laws and customs of society.”

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Fuente: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter V, The Utopian Socialists, p. 123

“Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.”

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Fuente: The Future As History (1960), Chapter I, Part 8, The Marxian Blow, p. 41

“He who enlists a man's mind wields a power even greater than the sword or the scepter.”

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Fuente: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 3

“It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.”

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Fuente: The Future As History (1960), Chapter III, Part 9, The Embrarras De Richesses, p. 150

“History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.”

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Fuente: The Future As History (1960), Chapter I, Part 1, The Shock of Events, p. 13

“David Ricardo saw that the escalator worked with different effects on different classes, that some rode triumphantly to the top, while others were carried up a few steps and then kicked back down to the bottom.”

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Fuente: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter IV, Parson Malthus and David Ricardo, p. 71

“The basic function of the military — to achieve victory over the enemy — has been rendered obsolete by the fact that "victory" and defeat are almost certain to be achieved simultaneously.”

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Fuente: The Future As History (1960), Chapter II, Part 1, The Impact of the Bomb, p. 64

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