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The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

Nassau William Senior

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Die Aufgabe eines politischen Ökonomen besteht weder darin, Empfehlungen zu empfehlen noch abzulehnen, sondern allgemeine Prinzipien zu formulieren, deren Vernachlässigung fatal ist, aber weder ratsam noch praktikabel ist, als alleinige oder sogar als Hauptleitung geltende Richtlinien zu verwenden Verhalten von Angelegenheiten.

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