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… is from page 109 of the 2016 Mercatus Center re-issue of my late colleague Don Lavoie’s excellent 1985 volume National Economic Planning: What Is Left? [2]:
What is properly involved in economics is the building of a conceptual framework for historical interpretation capable of making certain kinds of outcomes understandable in terms of the purposes that led to them.
What is properly involved in economics is the building of a conceptual framework for historical interpretation capable of making certain kinds of outcomes understandable in terms of the purposes that led to them.