"Well, I'd say, and this is probably a change from what I would have said when I was younger: Have a very healthy respect for the study of economic history, because that's the raw material out of which any of your conjectures or testings will come...But history doesn't tell its own story. You've got to bring to it all the statistical testings that are possible. And we have a lot more information now than we used to."
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Paul Samuelson, in Conor Clarke. "An Interview With Paul Samuelson, Part Two". The Atlantic (June 18, 2009)
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