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Rather like the Bible is for many Christians, the General Theory is the essential economics reference which few economists have ever read.

— 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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The belief that a capitalist economy is inherently stabilising is also one for which inhabitants of market economies may pay dearly in the future.

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

Why do economists persist in modelling the economy with static tools when dynamic ones exist; why do they treat as stationery an entity which is forever changing?

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Economic theory in general ignores processes which take time to occur, and instead assumes that everything occurs in equilibrium.

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Not even an economist can make time stand still (though some victims of economics lectures might dispute that!).

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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