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There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of pure mathematics.

— John Hicks John Hicks (1979)

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The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

Econometrica (1935)

Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.

Classics and Moderns (1983)

Income No. 3 must be deﬁned as the maximum amount of money which the individual can spend this week, and still be able to spend the same amount in real terms in each ensuing week.

Value and capital (1939)

I did not begin from Keynes: I began from Pareto, and Hayek.

Classics and Moderns (1983)

It is not so well known that it [Keynes's and my own move from thinking in terms of price-levels and the rate of interest to thinking in terms of inputs and outputs] is matched by a movement from Hayek to Harrod. I once asked Harrod what had put him on to the construction of his so-call 'dynamic' theory; he said, to my surprise, that it was thinking about Hayek.

Money, Interest and Wages (1982)

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