Volume 19, Number 1 · July 20, 1972
The Limits of Economics
By Wassily Leontief
Between Capitalism and Socialism: Essays in Political Economics
by Robert L. Heilbroner
Random House, 294 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Philosophy asks the important questions, but as soon as an answer is in sight a new discipline splits away and sets out on its own pursuit. This possibly explains why now—as two thousand years ago—philosophers are still preoccupied with unsolvable problems: those that can be solved are always snatched out of their hands.
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