Quotes by John Bates Clark

"We may build a machine that will not work, or make a product that no one wants; but labor that attains a rational purpose is always economically productive."
John Bates Clark
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John Bates Clark (January 26, 1847 – March 21, 1938) was an American neoclassical economist. He was one of the pioneers of the marginalist revolution and opponent to the Institutionalist school of eco...