It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future. - Robert Heilbroner

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.

The total amount of electric power generated by India would not suffice to light up New York City.

Keynes disdained inside information — in fact, he once declared that Wall Street traders could make huge fortunes if only they would disregard their "inside" information — and his own oracles were nothing but his minute scrutiny of balance sheets, his encyclopedic knowledge of finance, his intuition into personalities, and a certain flair for trading.