Arthur Frank Burns
Arthur Frank Burns
Arthur Frank Burnswas an American economist. His career alternated between academia and government. From 1927 to the 1970s, Burns taught and researched at Rutgers University, Columbia University, and the National Bureau of Economic Research...
NationalityUkrainian
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth27 April 1904
CountryUkraine
Arthur Frank Burns quotes about
government effort tragedy
My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!
school mind world
As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?
brutal fronts knows
We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.
spontaneity
Spontaneity has its time and its place.