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“Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.”

Thinking Feels Mean Problem Class Taught Involved Behavior Concepts Definitions Productions Solve Behave Assumption

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.”

Self Values Interest Behavior Driven Assumption Economist Preference Self Interest

Book:The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

Source: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

“Economics has increasingly become the science of human behavior in general, and it's all the more unlikely to think that it can possibly be value-free - and, in fact, it isn't. Economics rests on un-argued assumptions that need to be examined.”

Thinking Behavior Assumption Human Behavior

Author:Michael Sandel

“Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.”

Stills Interesting Behavior Starting Analysis Assumption Yield Intuitive Implications Systematic Starting Point

Author:Gary Becker

“We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.”

Way Should Motivational Grows Attitude Humility Perspective Behavior Assuming Intelligence Assumption Positive Behavior

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition