Before Quote by Colin Camerer

When I first began studying prices, it wasn't a topic that mathematicians were working on. Purely by accident, I saw a set of data…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Basically, we try to buy value expressed in the differential between its price and what we think its worth.

— Walter Schloss

Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have found is…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find…

— Jean Chretien

Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things.…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

It's a pattern. Prices go up, consumers get angry, politicians investigate, nothing changes.

— Sean Comey

Time is the most important factor in determining market movements and by studying past price records you will be able to prove to yourself…

— William Delbert Gann

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an…

— Thomas Piketty

In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but…

— George Gilder

I think bubbles are things people see with 20/20 hindsight. If you look at any particular period where prices go up and then they…

— Eugene Fama

I found the stock market very intriguing because prices used to fluctuate, I used to wonder why the price fluctuates.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

In the 1940s, economics started getting highly mathematical. It was basically because economists weren't smart enough to write down models of real behavior that…

— Richard Thaler