“It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.”

—  Arthur Cecil Pigou

Source: The Economics of Welfare (1920), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4

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