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

— Robert Solow

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

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

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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