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The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners - they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public's attention to important work in economics.

~Eric Maskin

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Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.

~Eric Schmidt

Topics: Advertising Build Business By-Product Create Economics Employees Everybody Founded Get Google Great Hire Information Invented Provided Strategy Us Value Which

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When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously. Welcome to the economics of abundance.

~Erik Brynjolfsson

Topics: Abundance Almost Cost Delivered Digital Economics Goods Instantaneously Nearly Perfect Quality Welcome Zero

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I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.

~Esther Duflo

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I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.

~Esther Dyson

Topics: Attention Change Consumes Content Copyright Dramatically Economics Going Information Just Much Out Part Scarcity Think Too Too Much Use I Think

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Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.

~Eugene Fama

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It doesn't take a degree in economics to know that something is wrong when it takes $30 or $40 to fill up the gas tank.

~Evan Bayh

Topics: Degree Economics Fill Gas Know Something Take Takes Tank Up Wrong

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I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.

~Evan Davis

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Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.

~Evan Davis

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Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.

~Evan Davis

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