Fritz Machlup quotes
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“The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers to an industry and sub-normal profits seem to drive away those who are in an industry, some writers are inclined to define normal profits as the earnings of the fixed resources in an industry which neither grows nor declines in size or number of firms. It should be clear that such a definition is useless: it muddles together attractiveness and actual afflux, desirbility of entry and ease of entry, zero profits and monopoly rents.”
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“When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the most penetrating thoughts on the subject that have ever been published.”
-- Fritz MachlupSource : Fritz Machlup (2013). “Essays on Hayek”, p.50, Routledge
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“Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.”
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“If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it.”
-- Fritz MachlupSource : "An Economic Review of the Patent System". Book by Fritz Machlup, U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, Study No. 15, p. 79-80, 1958.
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“One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.”
-- Fritz MachlupSource : Fritz Machlup (2013). “Essays on Hayek”, p.36, Routledge
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Source : "Is Global Warming a Sin?" by Alexander Cockburn, www.counterpunch.org. April 28, 2007.
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Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.
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“A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.”
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