Henry Calvert Simons quotes
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“Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.”
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“Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks and charlatans - not to mention the possibilities of the book as the economic bible of a fascist movement.”
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“Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production. The only simple property system is that of a slave society with a single slave owner - which, significantly, is the limiting case of despotism and of monopoly. Departure from such a system is a fair measure of human progress.”
-- Henry Calvert SimonsSource : Henry Calvert Simons (1948). “Economic Policy for a Free Society”
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“The libertarian good society lies... in the maximum dispersion of property compatible with effective production or, as process, in progressive reconciliation of conflicts between equality and efficiency. Such process involves increasing dispersion both of wealth among persons and families and of proximate productional control among enterprises or firms.”
-- Henry Calvert SimonsSource : Henry Calvert Simons (1948). “Economic Policy for a Free Society”
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Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”
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“A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.”
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“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE
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