Mises Daily
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Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan
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I recently came across “Putting Economics in Its Place,” an article penned by Robert L. Heilbroner, an avowedly Schumpeter-influenced socialist. Heilbroner’s main purpose is to argue that the explanatory scope of economics has been greatly exaggerated. He contends that economics does not provide a universal, underlying science of society. He