Much of my work in this period was concerned with…

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models…

— Joseph Stiglitz

It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?'…

— Naomi Klein

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and…

— Nicholas Negroponte

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

— George E. P. Box

I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The reality is sometimes markets don't exist for very good reasons. It might be that there isn't a deep customer need. Or the economic…

— Scott D. Anthony

Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional…

— George Akerlof

Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous…

— Annie Leonard

Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as…

— John Carroll

The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is,…

— B. W. Powe

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.

— Robert H. Frank

Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many…

— Noam Chomsky

I think ultimately Obama's ability to rebuild America's image in the world will depend less on his personal good will and more his ability…

— Peter Beinart

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.

— Robert H. Frank

The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select…

— Bruno Dumont