Wassily Leontief Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions.”
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“The human worker will go the way of the horse.”
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“We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.”
-- Wassily Leontief
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