The most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing. Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod More Quotes by Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod More Quotes From Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod No economy ever stands still. Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod economy stills ...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of the more laborious forms of statistical and field work. Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod fields teaching may