"By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking."

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

Paul Ormerod

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“You don't know me at all. You don't know the first thing about me. You don't know where I'm writing this from. You don't know what I look like. You have no power over me. What do you think I look like? Skinny? Freckles? Wire-rimmed glasses over brown eyes? No, I don't think so. Better look again. Deeper. It's like a kaleidoscope, isn't it? One minute I'm short, the next minute tall, one minute I'm geeky, one minute studly, my shape constantly changes, and the only thing that stays constant is my brown eyes. Watching you.”
“I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh â€“ difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.”
“MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!”
“I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves.”

Source : "MTV2's Guy Code Fellows Tell Us All About Love, Sex, & Relationships". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2013.
“It's the effort, not the results that matter.”
“Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet”
“We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.”

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