“It always seemed odd to me to study ideas in the abstract. You need to see concepts and ideas as part of the circumstances that made them possible.”

“How do economists get to know things? How do they decide that something is a fact? That’s the process I hope to understand.”

“People talk grandly about the general view of economists, but there are things that don’t quite seem to fit."

“This is proving to be an interesting experience, having a legal background as I do. I’m learning a lot about history and economics."

Sidney Weintraub was a professor of economics at St. John's University and the University of Pennsylvania and corresponded with the likes of Sir Roy Harrod and John Kenneth Galbraith.