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Harold J. Laski: “But it was discovered impossible to act any longer upon the assumptions of the abstract economic man.”

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But it was discovered impossible to act any longer upon the assumptions of the abstract economic man.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski argues that the assumptions of the abstract economic man became untenable in a complex world.

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