Top 25 Quotes by Robert Heilbroner of 36 - Page 2

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

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

Robert Heilbroner

Daily Life, Life Is, Surprise

"The Future As History". Book by Robert L. Heilbroner, Chapter I, Part 1, The Shock of Events, p. 13, 1960.

Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

Robert Heilbroner

Example, Socialism, Pathology

Robert L. Heilbroner (1980). “Marxism: For and Against”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

Robert Heilbroner

Government, Might, Economy

Robert L. Heilbroner (1986). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers”

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

Robert Heilbroner

Tragedy, Socialism, Century

Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

Robert Heilbroner

Religious, Beer, Church

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

Robert Heilbroner

Suicidal, Progress, Economics

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.

Robert Heilbroner

Technology, Accepted, Strive

"The Future As History". Book by obert Heilbroner, Chapter I, Part 8, The Marxian Blow, p. 41, 1960.

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

Robert Heilbroner

Turns, Infallible

Robert L. Heilbroner (1980). “Marxism: For and Against”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .

Robert Heilbroner

Hero, Reality, Age

"The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers". Book by Robert L. Heilbroner, Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen, p. 224, 1953.

Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.

Robert Heilbroner

Today, World, Capitalism

"The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter II, Part 7, The Drift Away From Capitalism, p. 94, 1960.

In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.

Robert Heilbroner

Monsters, Littles, Wreckage

Robert L. Heilbroner (2011). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers”, p.160, Simon and Schuster