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Kenneth Boulding on Finance

1910–1993 United States

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A distinguished economist, on being asked to define the subject matter of his science, once replied, "Economics is what economists do."

Economics deals with the behavior of commodities rather than with the behavior of men.

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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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kenneth Boulding (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.