The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the he… - Robert Heilbroner

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The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.

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

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There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.
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