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Thus while diminishing returns do exist when industries are broadly defined, no industry can be considered in isolation from all the others, as supply and demand curve analysis requires.

— Steve Keen Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001)

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Economics is not the Emperor of the social sciences, but the Humpty Dumpty.

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