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The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist — a skill which he shares with many other scientists, but in which he has perhaps a certain comparative advantage.

— Kenneth Boulding

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

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