Economics Quote by Jean Tirole Download Open image ““The contrast between economics and medicine is striking:”” — Jean Tirole ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Medicine
“We have to understand that medicine is not simply a science. It's much more than that. It's also an ideology. It's a way of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Sadly, interpretation of medical science is frequently influenced by the dark forces of industry, out to make a killing. And” — John Yudkin Copy Share Image
“The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that they have… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.” — Emmet Densmore Copy Share Image
If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit,… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
“Whether you think the commercialization of medical research is good or bad depends on how into capitalism you are.” — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“In the economy of health, movement is currency, spend it daily, wisely, and with purpose.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
At a time when the cost of health care is skyrocketing, the potential economic impact of mind/body medicine is considerable. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“decisions made by economic actors (households, firms, the state) are constrained by limited information.” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
“Equality of opportunity in education aims to insure us against disparities arising from the situation in which we are born” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
“Wealth acquired by creating value for society is not equivalent to wealth that comes from economic rents. For example, a very important factor in… — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
“exacerbated eagerness to exploit the ignorance and prejudice of voters.” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
“Not only are we subject to cognitive biases, we also frequently seek out things that reinforce them. We interpret facts through the prism of… — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
“The polarization of terms of employment between an ultraflexible fixed-term contract and an ultrarigid permanent contract divides the labor market between those who spend… — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
“staying safely in the ivory tower is much more comfortable for academics,” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually… — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned from the '30s, it is a lesson we learned post-World War II, and it plays to our strengths. — Charles Boustany Copy Share
“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the standard of living and level of awareness of life’s pleasures and luxuries available to the educated and new middle classes, in all countries liberated from the “intelligent design” of totalitarian or semi-totalitarian governments that purported to… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality of the categories and concepts employed by that science, is, in fact, the paradoxical product of a long collective history, endlessly reproduced in individual histories, which can be fully accounted for only by historical analysis: it… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
“a select group of high-performing companies have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap through better planning and execution. These companies—Barclays, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical,… — Michael C. Mankins Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own… — Karl Marx Copy Share
