Occupation: Economist Birth: January 18, 1910 Death: March 18, 1993
The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even make us look at our….
Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any particular act or po….
The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital ….
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.….
It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a s….
I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (….
The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism..
Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit.
We make our tools, and then they shape us..
Almost every organization... exhibits two faces a smiling face which it turns toward its members and a frowning face which it turns to the world outs….
Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman - a good wife, pullin….
[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively..
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state..
The human experience can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all decisions are of the past, all decisions are about the future. The ….
The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love..
The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money..
Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless..
We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information..
Communication can only take place among equals..
A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species of large four-wheele….
[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?.