"The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy."

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Source : William D. Nordhaus, Joseph Boyer (2003). “Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming”, p.167, MIT Press

William Nordhaus

#Kyoto Quotes #Environmental Quotes #Strategy Quotes

“My life's mission is to unmask the Jews.”
“I'm a grumpy old man. The older I get the more anti-social I get.”

Source : The Planet Ill Interview, planetill.com. November 6, 2009.
“Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.”
“Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.”

Source : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.115, University of Michigan Press
“It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.”
“It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.”
“It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.”

Source : Kenichi Ohmae (1994). “The borderless world: power and strategy in the global marketplace”
“There are five main purposes of central bank cooperation"..."the provision of international credits and joint efforts to influence asset prices (especially gold and foreign exchange) in circumstances where this might be thought useful.”

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