"The model of competitive equilibrium which has been discussed so far is set in a timeless environment. People and companies all operate in a world in which there is no future and hence no uncertainty."

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Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

Paul Ormerod

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Environment Quotes

“Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.”
“A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom. The language bears that out very clearly. The English and the foreign are still all too inclined to refer to the island of Great Britain as 'England'. But at no time have they ever customarily referred to an English empire.”
“As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.”

Source : 'Poems: In Divers Humours' (1598) 'An Ode'
“What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.”
“And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.”
“To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.”
“Blessed are those who imitate us for they shall inherit our faults.”
“Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.”

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