Experimental economics is about conducting experiments: bringing economics into the laboratory or creating controlled conditions in the field that allow us to understand better what we are seeing in less controlled circumstances.
Alvin E. Roth
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I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.
Gerard Debreu
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I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.
Stephen Pagliuca
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I've always thought that good politics follows from good economics and good policies.
George Osborne
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I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.
Stone Gossard
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The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.
Robert Duvall
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Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.
Eugene Fama
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The last thing that should come between two willing parties, one that wants to adopt and one that wants to find a home, is economics.
Rocky Wirtz
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When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
Evan Osnos
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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
Ruth Hubbard
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The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.
Elon Musk
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Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.
Martin O'Malley
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After my undergraduate, I've written a thesis that was in the government department, but largely, it turned out almost an economic type of thesis. And I was very interested in that, and I wanted to go get a Ph.D. in Economics.
David Einhorn
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American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
Michael Mandelbaum
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I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.
Charlie Trotter
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As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation.
Loretta Napoleoni
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Social justice and economics are both issues to me.
Betsy DeVos
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The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits.
Joseph Stiglitz
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A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.
Vincent Frank
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The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.
Christina Romer
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I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn't until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go to film school.
Raoul Peck
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Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.
Chuck Berry
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I can't think of a president who has been overburdened by a knowledge of economics.
Paul Samuelson
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