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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

ROBERT HEILBRONER,

1919 - 2005




'The questions that absorb the younger economists are too narrow, he says.

Economists, for example, cannot just chronicle the rise of output as an economy grows. There must also be a judgment about the quality of that output: Does it show up as more school construction or warmer clothing in winter or as more channels of bad television programs and higher pay for chief executives.
'

New York Times, January 1999