"Economics is not politics. One is a
science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that
determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the
art of ruling. One is amoral, the other is moral. Economic laws are
self-operating and carry their own sanctions, as do all natural laws,
while politics deals with man-made and man-manipulated conventions. As
a science, economics seeks understanding of inavariable principles;
politics is ephemeral, its subject matter being the day-to-day
relations of associated men. Economics, like chemistry, has nothing to
do with politics. The intrusion of politics into the field of
economics is simply an evidence of human ignorance or arrogance, and
is as fatuous as an attempt to control the rise and fall of tides."
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