Top Economic Models Quotes Collection

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Image of Nicholas Negroponte
I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.
- Nicholas Negroponte
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Image of George Akerlof
Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.
- George Akerlof
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Image of Bruno Dumont
The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.
- Bruno Dumont
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Image of Robert H. Frank
The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.
- Robert H. Frank
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Image of Robert H. Frank
If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.
- Robert H. Frank
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Image of Joseph Stiglitz
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation.
- Joseph Stiglitz
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Image of B. W. Powe
The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.
- B. W. Powe
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Image of Mikhail Gorbachev
I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living?
- Mikhail Gorbachev
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Image of Naomi Klein
So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system.
- Naomi Klein
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