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Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.

— Robert Solow

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In the advanced economies, I would say: To avoid mass unemployment, poverty and widening inequality.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

Another difference between Milton and myself is that everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.

I think that this is Schumpeter’s main legacy to economics: the role of technological and organizational innovation in driving and shaping the growth trajectory of capitalist economies.

Heavy Thinker (2007)

Some of post-Keynesian price theory comes forth from the belief that universal competition is a bad assumption. I have all my life known that. So I have found it an unrewarding approach and have not paid much attention to it.

Conversations with Economists (1983)

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