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The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population.

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Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

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Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean.

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The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

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To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.

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The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.

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I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

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I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the computer, and you didn't have to go through this straitjacket, adding a lot of numbers.

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When computers came along, I felt for the first time that I had the proper tools for the kind of theoretical work I wanted to do. So I moved over to that, and that got me into psychology.

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Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: June 15th, 1916

Died: February 9th, 2001

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