“Engineers were the only members of the community "who understand the needs of the nation, desires of the workmen, and the power of the productive forces"”

—  Henry Gantt

Source: Organizing for Work, 1919, p. 332 as cited in: J.T. Knoedler (1997) "Veblen and technical efficiency". In: Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Dec., 1997), pp. 1011-1026.

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