What Edmund Burke thinks about economists

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Irish-born British statesman and political philosopher (1729 to 1797); author of Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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1. c. 1790

   Our readingThe age of chivalry is gone and the glory of Europe is extinguished

   Europe

   Their wordsBut the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

   ↗Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)gutenberg.org All 21 from this book