Quotation of the Day…
Posted By Don Boudreaux On January 31, 2013 @ 7:29 am In Economics,History,Trade | Comments Disabled
… is from page 453 of Deirdre McCloskey’s June 1976 article in the Journal of Economic Literature, “Does the Past Have Useful Economics? [1]“:
Few intellectual activities are more mischievous when done poorly than economics or history. The power of fallacious economic reasoning or fallacious historical example to damage society is obvious: the pseudo-economics of mercantilism has been reducing trade and protecting vested interests for many centuries; the pseudo-history of the Aryan “race” lent dignity to German fascism. The combination of bad economics and bad history in bad economic history is pernicious.
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