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We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

~Clara Zetkin

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I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.

~Clive Granger

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I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.

~Clive Granger

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Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us a mathematical taxonomy of social life, and it predicts what people are likely to do and believe others will do in cases where everyone's actions affect everyone else.

~Colin Camerer

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Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

~Conrad Black

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Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.

~Dale T. Mortensen

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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.

~Dale T. Mortensen

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I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.

~Dambisa Moyo

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There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.

~Dambisa Moyo

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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

~Dambisa Moyo

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