"An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too."

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There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they do the economist or the social scientist. The one with which I am particularly concerned here is that of the role of knowledge in social systems, both as a product of the past and as a determinant of the future.

— Kenneth E. Boulding