Economic Models famous quotes

We are involved in a historic restructuring of the world economy. Virtually every country that matters has been striving to pursue the same economic model, and has bought into a set of market-based principles that has brought new players on the stage and new markets. We have to take full advantage.
-- Chris Alexander

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The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
-- Frances O'Grady

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I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.
-- Lars Peter Hansen

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People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.
-- Matthew Specktor

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I think ultimately Obama's ability to rebuild America's image in the world will depend less on his personal good will and more his ability to rebuild an American economic model that seems stable and humane and dynamic.
-- Peter Beinart

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I think the tragedy of Barack Obama's presidency is that although a lot of people around the world really admire Barack Obama a lot, they don't admire the American political and economic model as much as they used to.
-- Peter Beinart

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Questions like, "Is my suit OK?", or "Is my job performance satisfactory?", are impossible to think about in the absence of a suitable frame of reference. For an interview suit to serve its purpose, it must make you look good relative to other candidates for the job you want. For your job performance to be satisfactory, it must compare favorably with the performance of others who want the same promotion you do. As Charles Darwin saw clearly, much of life is graded on the curve, and conventional economic models completely ignore that fact.
-- Robert H. Frank

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If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.
-- Robert H. Frank

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The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.
-- Robert H. Frank

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