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"An economist by training thinks of himself as the guardian of rationality, the ascriber of rationality to others, and the prescriber of rationality to the social world." (K.J. Arrow, 1974)
"A man who is a mathematician and nothing but a mathematician may live a stunted life, but he does not do any harm. An economist who is nothing but an economist is a danger to his neighbors. Economics is not a thing in itself; it is a study of one aspect of the life of a man in a society... Modern economics is subject to a real danger of Machiavellism- the treatment of social problems as matters of technique, not as facets of the general search for Good Life." (Sir John Hicks, 1941)
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