Ronald Coase Quotes
- If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
- I hate when people ask me to: "Massage the data".
- Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it.
- Data can't speak for itself; it's up to you to give it a voice. Try to speak truthfully.
- We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled…
- Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world.
- In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into…
- I can't remember [of a good regulation]. Regulation of transport, regulation of agriculture — agriculture is a, zoning is z. You know, you go from…
- If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, ‘What would…