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“I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.”

Jobs Faces Given Difficult Space Situation Issues Theory Tough Crisis Focused Instance Mess Restoring Times Of Crisis

Author:Christine Lagarde

“The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.”

Knows Men Needs Kind Ideas Fields Taught Theory Crisis Majority Alternatives Eras Guidance Dependent Dominant Unfamiliar Times Of Crisis

Book:Ominous Parallels

Source: Ominous Parallels

“Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises. Most important, Yoo's approach offers a way to renew our political system's democratic vigor.”

Way Important Political Interest Policy Theory Politician Offers Conflict Approach Harder Crisis Democratic Discussion Frank Parades Political Systems Vigor National Interests

Author:David B. Rivkin

“A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.”

Failing Theory Economics Crisis Hearing Complaining Characteristics Orthodoxy Crank

Book:Contributions to Modern Economics

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.”

Community Perfect Theory Election Crisis China Storm Olympics Explosions Perfect Storm Storms Coming

Author:Bonnie Blair

“I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.”

Men Enough Political Theory Lucky Findings Crisis Caught Forests Communism Maps Discovering Caught Up Marxism Cuba Political Theory Whirlpools

Author:Fidel Castro

“To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.”

Source: The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change

“Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action appeared, where is lays out his case in a more popular form. The money sentences are “Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis. It has happened again and again in the past, and it will happen in the future, too.”

“Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis.”

Way Ends Economic Policy Theory Crisis Prosperity Credit Monetary Illusory Economic Crisis Economic Theory Slumps

Book:Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays