Economics in sentence

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You see, 20th century economics assured us that if growth creates inequality, don't try to redistribute, because more growth will even things up again.

In my economics classes I got high marks for my understanding of basic economics.

I mentioned we looked at birds and marine mammals and looked at basically the environmental impact of the system, and finally we looked at the economics, and what I mean by economics is, what is the energy required to run the system?

But we don't have a lot of time, and I'd like to show you the artist's conception of how this system might look if we find ourselves in a protected bay somewhere in the world, and we have in the background in this image, the waste water treatment plant and a source of flue gas for the CO2, but when you do the economics of this system, you find that in fact it will be difficult to make it work.

I think the economics are pretty clear on this.

One area is called experimental economics.

The other area is called behavioral economics.

An architect designs a building, and it becomes a place, or many architects design many buildings, and it becomes a city, and regardless of this complicated mix of forces of politics and culture and economics that shapes these places, at the end of the day, you can go and you can visit them.

And this has been true for 30 years, and the handover in 1979, 1980, between one Jamaican leader who was the son of a Rhodes Scholar and a Q.C. to another who'd done an economics doctorate at Harvard, over 800 people were killed in the streets in drug-related violence.

The phrase that you want, if you're a graduate student or a postdoc or you're a professor, a 38-year-old economics professor, is, "I'm an empiricist.

The 20th century, the last hundred years, is riddled with disastrous examples of times that one school or the other tried to explain the past or predict the future and just did an awful, awful job, so the economics profession has acquired some degree of modesty.

Levin writes that all over the world, nations are coming to terms with the fact that the social democratic welfare state is turning out to be untenable and unaffordable, dependent upon dubious economics and the demographic model of a bygone era.

"There is also a strong belief, which I share, that bad or oversimplistic and overconfident economics helped create the crisis."

This approach has been very successfully applied to many complex systems in physics, biology, computer science, the social sciences, but what about economics?

Ideas relating to finance, economics, politics, society, are very often tainted by people's personal ideologies.

The global economic financial crisis has reignited public interest in something that's actually one of the oldest questions in economics, dating back to at least before Adam Smith.

My linguistics and economics colleagues at Yale and I are just starting to do this work and really explore and understand the ways that these subtle nudges cause us to think more or less about the future every single time we speak.

So game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us a mathematical taxonomy of social life and it predicts what people are likely to do and believe others will do in cases where everyone's actions affect everyone else.

However, in 1809, David Ricardo muddied the waters by arguing that the science of economics should use a different, deductive method.

The problem was that an influential group at Oxford began arguing that because it worked so well in economics, this deductive method ought to be applied to the natural sciences too.

Welcome to the economics of abundance.

You know, I recently overheard a conversation that epitomizes these new economics.

I [did] a master's degree in economics.

We were too young, and our organization thought it was better for us to go out, and we went to France, where I did a PhD in economics, Léila became an architect.

And I think that's why many of the most significant people in effective altruism have been people who have had backgrounds in philosophy or economics or math.

And that might seem surprising, because a lot of people think, "Philosophy is remote from the real world; economics, we're told, just makes us more selfish, and we know that math is for nerds."

It strikes me that we talk very deeply about design, but actually there's an economics behind architecture that we don't talk about, and I think we need to.

What's the role of religious belief systems, the sports culture, the pornography culture, the family structure, economics, and how that intersects, and race and ethnicity and how that intersects?

So far, we've thrown economics at the problem, actually mostly austerity, and certainly we could have designed alternatives, a different strategy, a green stimulus for green jobs, or mutualized debt, Eurobonds which would support countries in need from market pressures, these would have been much more viable alternatives.

Yet I have come to believe that the problem is not so much one of economics as it is one of democracy.

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