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A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described… — Matthew Rabin
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated by… — Martin Shubik
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate… — Thomas Piketty
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition… — John Maynard Keynes
If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model… — Edward S. Herman
In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In… — Amory Lovins
There is no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The global cooling trend from 1940 to 1970 is… — Peter Stilbs
It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to… — Tom Segalstad
To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with AGW model predictions. — Richard Courtney
Climate ... models bear about as much relation to reality as astrology. — Melanie Phillips
It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models. — Freeman Dyson
Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere. — Freeman Dyson
Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs. — Freeman Dyson
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is… — Thomas Sowell
The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the… — Pope John Paul II
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model. — Seneca the Younger
Vision is easy. It's so easy to just point to the bleachers and say I'm going to hit one over there. What's hard is saying,… — Lou Gerstner
Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups? — Pope John Paul II
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants… — Mary Catherine Bateson

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