Occupation: Economist Birth: January 18, 1910 Death: March 18, 1993
There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems..
All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information..
[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively..
Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless..
[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, acros….
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 right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state..
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….
The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love..
If the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present era to develop a new t….
The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties..
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 World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse ….
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….
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 (….
If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, m….
With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic..
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.….
The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cas….
Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losse….
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 ….