economist

Karl Marx

occupation / innovator as

scientist

university teacher

historian

nationality

American

innovator in the field of

economic history

is a teller of stories and maker of poems.

Economists are tellers of stories and makers of poems.

is at once the greatest social scientist of the 19th century and nonetheless mistaken on almost every point of economics and of history.

I enrage my friends on the right by stating the obvious, that Marx was the greatest social scientist of the 19th century, without compare. But then I enrage my friends on the left by adding, which is my point here, that he was nonetheless mistaken on almost every point of economics and of history.

Deirdre McCloskey

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