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In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.
In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.
Approximate author period: c. 1957 AD · modern
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- John Kenneth Galbraith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1957 AD · modern
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