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Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

— Paul Samuelson

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What sex is to the biology classroom, stocks and investment riskiness is to the sophomore economics lecture hall.

Samuelson's Economics at Fifty: Remarks on the Occasion of the Anniversary of Publication (1998)

When finally mastered, its analysis is found to be obvious and at the same time new. In short, it is a work of genius.

The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions.

Economic theory is a mistress of even too tempting grace.

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