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1 " It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis... If our work is to retain any meaning it can only be informed by this: concern for the future, for those who will come after us. "
― Max Weber , Essays in Economic Sociology
2 " But things have been so admirably arranged by the Divine inventor of social order that in this, as in everything else, political economy and morality, far from clashing, agree; and the wisdom of Aristus is not only more dignified, but still more profitable, than the folly of Mondor. And when I say profitable, I do not mean only profitable to Aristus, or even to society in general, but more profitable to the workmen themselves—to the trade of the time. "
― Frédéric Bastiat , That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen
3 " It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. "
