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The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education.

~Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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I walked into an international economics tutorial, and the professor said, 'I don't know how to teach a woman.' I said, 'It's the same as teaching a man.' I just sat down, and he had no choice but to start teaching. When I handed in my first paper, I think that shut him up.

~Allison Schroeder

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One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

~Ally Condie

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Experimental economics is about conducting experiments: bringing economics into the laboratory or creating controlled conditions in the field that allow us to understand better what we are seeing in less controlled circumstances.

~Alvin E. Roth

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Some say economics has all kinds of good tools and techniques, but it has an absence of interesting problems. I look around the world, and I see all kinds of interesting, important problems we ought to solve with the tools we have.

~Alvin E. Roth

Topics: Absence Around Economics Good Important Interesting Kinds Look Ought Problems Say See Solve Some Techniques Tools World I See

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I gravitated to economics because I'm interested in how people coordinate and collaborate with each other. Economics studies all the ways people get along with each other.

~Alvin E. Roth

Topics: Along Because Collaborate Coordinate Each Economics Get How Interested Other People Studies Ways

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In a paper called 'The Economics of Matching: Stability and Incentives,' I showed that there were not any mechanisms that would always both produce a stable matching and make it completely safe for all firms and workers to reveal their true preferences.

~Alvin E. Roth

Topics: Always Any Both Economics Incentives Make Matching Mechanisms Paper Preferences Produce Reveal Safe Stability Stable True Were Workers Would

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The simple model of a bridge is great, and you could not build a bridge without understanding it well. But if you're actually building the bridge, you need to know the site. A lot of economics is like that: When prices go up, demand is gonna go down. You can't forget that and run your economy. But it's not the only thing you need to know.

~Alvin E. Roth

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Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations.

~Aman Mojadidi

Topics: About Art Been Considered Culture Discussions Economics Fact Global In Fact International International Relations Misguided Often Politics Powerful Relations Religion See Society Transcendent Voice Way I See

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While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

~Amartya Sen

Topics: Am Both Economics Far Fields Interested Interests Intersection Philosophy Two Union While I Am

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