# Quote — Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers

> David Ricardo saw that the escalator worked with different effects on different classes, that some rode triumphantly to the top, while others were carried up a few steps and then kicked back down to the bottom.

- Author: [Robert Heilbroner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-heilbroner.md)
- Book: [The Worldly Philosophers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-heilbroner/the-worldly-philosophers.md)
- Page: 71
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> Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits.

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