Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Harry Gordon Johnson
Born: May 26, 1923
Died: May 9, 1977 (aged 53)
Bio: Harry Gordon Johnson OC was a Canadian economist who studied topics such as international trade and international finance and is regarded as one of the most prolific economists of the 20th century.
Known for:
- Selected essays in monetary economics (1967)
- Further Essays in Monetary Economics (1972)
- On Economics and Society: Selected Essays (1975)
- The two-sector model of general equilibrium (1971)