“In its origins the utility school was strongly influenced by a desire to strengthen the potentially apologetic character of economics.”

— Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden

Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter VIII, Modern Economics, p. 370

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British economist 1907–2005

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