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The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.

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Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe.

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I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods.

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I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.

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My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

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Whereas economic man maximises, selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, his cousin, administrative man, satisfices, looks for a course of action that is satisfactory or 'good enough'.

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Human knowledge has been changing from the word 'go,' and people, in certain respects, behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

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Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.

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By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: June 15th, 1916

Died: February 9th, 2001

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