One accumulates or one gets accumulated.

- Robert Heilbroner

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation,…

- Robert Heilbroner

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the firs…

- Robert Heilbroner

Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it i…

- Robert Heilbroner

The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distributio…

- Robert Heilbroner

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

- Robert Heilbroner

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

- Robert Heilbroner

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

- Robert Heilbroner

It's great to have two cars and a swimming pool. But there are disappointments. After you've made some money and acquired some things, and after the …

- Robert Heilbroner