Robert L. Heilbroner: Quotes about the future

Robert L. Heilbroner was American historian and economist. Explore interesting quotes on future.
Robert L. Heilbroner: 78 quotes1 like

“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 L. Heilbroner

Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter III, Part 12, The Deepening Confusion, p. 170

“It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.”

Robert L. Heilbroner book The Worldly Philosophers

Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter XI, Beyond the Economic Revolution, p. 317

“Today and over the foreseeable future, traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.”

Robert L. Heilbroner

Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter II, Part 7, The Drift Away From Capitalism, p. 94

“Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.”

Robert L. Heilbroner

Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter I, Part 8, The Marxian Blow, p. 41