Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Walter Heller, fully Walter Wolfgang Heller

American Economist and Chairman of Economic Advisers to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

"Rise above principle and do what's right."

"It's a good thing we found it. It's better to find it than not know about it."

"An economist is a person who, when he finds something that works in practice, wonders if it will work in history."