Robert Heilbroner Quote

For it is certain that the future will bring realities for which our traditional optimism fails to prepare us and against which our economic momentum fails to arm us.


Chapter III, Part 12, The Deepening Confusion, p. 170 - The Future As History (1960)


For it is certain that the future will bring realities for which our traditional optimism fails to prepare us and against which our economic momentum ...

For it is certain that the future will bring realities for which our traditional optimism fails to prepare us and against which our economic momentum ...

For it is certain that the future will bring realities for which our traditional optimism fails to prepare us and against which our economic momentum ...

For it is certain that the future will bring realities for which our traditional optimism fails to prepare us and against which our economic momentum ...