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A. Loesch, "The Spatial Order of the Economy

"The real business of economists is not to explain the miserable reality, but to improve it.

The question of the best location is far more worthwhile than the determination of the factual one."

Quoted in "An activity Approach to Location Theory" by M. Beckman and T. Marschak. in Proceeding of the Second Symposium in Linear Programming, Washington, D.C. January 27-29, 1955. Volume 1.