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By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all respectability to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.

Paul A. Baran

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Paul A. Baran
Age: 54 †
Born: 1909
Born: August 25
Died: 1964
Died: March 26
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Paul Alexander Baran
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