Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one… — Robert Aumann Copy Share Image
Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
It is difficult to make people understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and the harmony they dream of come… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Life purpose may be shifted from achieving a 'steady state' (an equilibrium between desires and plausibilities) to the excitement of running after… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare… — George Soros Copy Share Image
A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
The characteristics of a good musician can be summarized as follows: 1. A well-trained ear. 2. A well-trained intelligence. 3. A well-trained… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without… — Richard Chandler Copy Share Image
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The strong equilibrium point f just described is one of "unrelenting ferocity" against offenders. It exhibits a zeal for meting out justice… — Robert Aumann Copy Share Image
The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end...… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past,… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of nervous energy and I trip a lot. I don't have a good equilibrium. In the places where… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
“The key, as Cook well knew, was to find a collective equilibrium. At one of the memorial services, he had talked about… — Yukari Iwatani Kane Copy Share Image
Running back-to-back races requires a certain tactical prudence. Going too hard in any one race might jeopardize your performance in another. Maintaining… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like… — Pieter Zeeman Copy Share Image
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why?… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
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