Attempting Quote by Joseph Stiglitz

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

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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