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Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes: I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.
         

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.


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Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.



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We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.



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The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.



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If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.



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