Harold J. Laski: “The manufacturers were the State; and the whole intellectual strength…”

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The manufacturers were the State; and the whole intellectual strength of economics was massed to prove the rightness of the equation.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski asserts that manufacturers effectively became the State, influencing economic thought.

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