Economists

Examples

• When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They have for some years past made a pretty considerable sect, distinguished in the French republic of letters by the name of the Economists. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The orthodox economists are in the unenviable position of having taken their morals from the exploiter and of having translated them into the grandiloquent language of high public policy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We have had economists who set out with the preconceived idea of justifying the factory system. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Both the Encyclop?dists and the various Economists and Physiocrats demanded a considerable amount of hard thinking in their disciples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That was the nauseating method of nineteenth century economists when they tried to identify the brutal practices of capitalism with the beneficence of nature and the Will of God. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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