The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians. When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution… - Robert Heilbroner

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The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians. When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution, that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment.

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About Robert Heilbroner

Robert Heilbroner (March 24, 1919 – January 4, 2005) was an American economist and historian of economic thought.

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