"Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider world, they are common in economics departments. Exemplifying the homo economicus paradigm, economists typically choose their research projects and hypotheses so as to promote their own careers, to maximize their lifetime income. This explains the astonishing pressures toward conformity in academic economics: how deviant views (except those by a few who have already achieved stardom) get crushed by an army of conformists."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Thomas Pogge

#Army Quotes #Views Quotes #Careers Quotes

“You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence”

Source : Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong (2010). “In My Hands”, p.92, Random House
“Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!”

Source : "Thebais". Book by Statius, II, 489,
“I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.”

Source : "This week in fiction:Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.
“To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.”

Source : "Piłsudski: A Life For Poland". Book by Wacław Jędrzejewicz, 1982.
“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”
“Men get it. I think us men need you women to help us survive.”
“Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business”
“Here's the thing, men have to also mature in how they see women, too. Because they need to understand that it's not just about how we look, it's about who we are. And I am going to tell you like this, 'If you can't love me with short hair, and you telling me I got to have long hair to be loved, guess what, I ain't the one for you.'”

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