Discipline Quote by Robert Kuttner Download Open image “As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.” — Robert Kuttner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discipline Economics Envy Physics Scholarly
Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
Economics profession, they've been - they've been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy. — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
“Neoclassical economics has effectively insulated itself from the great advances made in science and engineering over the last 40 years. This self-imposed isolation must… — Steve Keen Copy Share Image
We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's trade disputes… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
We are already well down the road toward a managed-trade regime. It would be far better to acknowledge that reality, and seek a set… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences,… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict is less… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing. — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Proverbs from the East: The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. Even though I make no special attempt to observe the discipline of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
