Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Jacob Viner
Born: May 3, 1892
Died: September 12, 1970 (aged 78)
Bio: Jacob Viner was a Canadian economist and is considered with Frank Knight and Henry Simons to be one of the "inspiring" mentors of the early Chicago School of Economics in the 1930s: he was one of the leading figures of the Chicago faculty.
Known for:
- The Customs Union Issue (1950)
- Studies in the Theory of International Trade (1937)
- Cost curves and supply curves .. (1932)
- The role of providence in the social order
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