George Akerlof famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.
-- George Akerlof

#Psychology #Cooking #Doe
Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth of Nations is still being read today. With the same perspicacity and with the same broad historical perspective, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson have retackled this same question for our own times. Two centuries from now our great-great- . . . -great grandchildren will be, similarly, reading Why Nations Fail.
-- George Akerlof

#Book #Reading #Grandchildren

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.
You must not let your opponent know how you feel.
I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.
I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.
Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.

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