“Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?” Quote by William J. Murray
“Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.” SpeakEconomicsTongueSymbolsMathematicalEconomistIntimidated Author:Al Nichol
“If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.” IfsKnowsGivingGivenResults Author:Gautama Buddha
“I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they show no sign of stopping.” PeopleMenRealDoneShowsEconomicEconomicsRationalBeing RealStoppingInexplicableTheorists Author:Charles S. Sanford, Jr.
“Medical tests have shown that giving stimulates a part of the brain that gives us the same gratification as when we eat food or have sex.” GivingSexBrainTestsMedicalGratification Author:Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
“Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects it into its constituent parts is bound to miss precisely those emergent properties” WholeIndividualResultsMissingApproachEconomicsPropertyBoundsInteractionConstituentsTop Down Author:Manuel De Landa
“A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules” MadeSocialSimpleEconomicsWideLocalsAgentsRangeCollectivesInteractionAutonomous Author:Robert Axtell
“Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we possess vary enormously. Indeed, the variability, over time and space is the great evolutionary advantage of humanity. Instead of changing biologically over millennia, human beings can change culturally over decades” HumansHumanityCultureHuman BeingsSpaceAnimalDiversityAdvantageEconomicsDecadesInevitableDesirableTime And SpaceVaryCultural DiversityCultural ChangeVariability Author:Martin Wolf
“Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?” WatchesWiseEconomicsGuardianMob RuleEmasculation Author:Plato
“A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good” MenSometimesEvilExpectationsEconomicsFellowsCunning Author:Sophocles
“When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.” PeopleFirstsFunnyTogetherGuyFunPowerLaughingMetsOfficeExcitingScaredKneesExpectingTerrifiedEnjoyableKnockingBeing Funny Author:Suzy Welch