For it is certain that the future will bring realities for which our traditional optimism fails to prepare us and against which our economic momentum fails to arm us. (Robert Heilbroner)

For it is certain that the future will bring realities for which our traditional optimism fails to prepare us and against which our economic momentum fails to arm us.

Robert Heilbroner

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