Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
Ina regular and constant employment the greatest result will always be gained by such a rate as allows a workman each day,or each week at the most, to recover all fatigue and recommence with an undiminished store of energy.
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization.
In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis.
In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.
The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.
We were in the NBA Finals. Two games away from winning it. I think we did pretty well.
How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions.