- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fork In The Road
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're not making a decision if you come to a fork in the road. There is no 'it' to take. It's one or the other.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The contrafactual history is what it would have been the other way. Think of the Kennedy triumph in the missiles crisis. Worked out fine. Khrushchev blinked and so forth. The other road, you don't want to think too hard about. You could have had nuclear missiles wiping out a tenth of the globe.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
American society was economically ill-run in the 1980s. Our society has been on a consumption binge. If the American people had a town meeting and said, 'What do we care about posterity? Posterity hasn't done anything for us; we're going to whoop it up now,' that is a rational judgment. But nobody ever did that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have the wrong idea that God will forgive Reagan. They say he didn't know what he was doing. It's true he didn't know a lot of what was going on, but he was directly responsible.
- Hesitant
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- Nov 07, 2020
People had J.F.K. all wrong. They thought of him as a dashing, deciding type. He was an extremely hesitant person who checked the ice in front of him all the time.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a person of analytical ability, perceptive enough to realise that mathematical equipment was a powerful sword in economics, the world of economics was his or her oyster in 1935. The terrain was strewn with beautiful theorems begging to be picked up and arranged in unified order.
- Consultant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, when I became a consultant to a federal agency, that precipitated its demise.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided that there was only one place to make money in the mutual fund business, as there is only one place for a temperate man to be in a saloon: behind the bar and not in front of it.
- Exciting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the jargon of American vaudeville, Professors Frisch and Tinbergen are a 'hard act to follow.' But then, all my life, I have been following such great scholars and policy advisors as these.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me acknowledge that I realize that, in honoring me, the Committee of the Royal Academy of Sciences is in fact saying a good word for all of those of my generation who have been laboring in the same vineyard.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy has gone a long way beyond home economics.
- Early Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is it that the scientist finds useful in being able to relate a positive description of behavior to the solution of a maximizing problem? That is what a good deal of my own early work was about.
- Harold
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the pleasing things about science is that we do all climb towards the heavens on the shoulders of our predecessors. Economics, like physics, has its heroes, and the letter 'H' that I used in my mathematical equations was not there to honor Sir William Hamilton, but rather Harold Hotelling.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have not been able in one lecture even to scratch the surface of the role of maximum principles in analytic economics.
- Defeat
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Keynesian idea is once again accepted that fiscal policy and deficit spending has a major role to play in guiding a market economy. I wish Friedman were still alive so he could witness how his extremism led to the defeat of his own ideas.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020