Eric Maskin Quotes
This may not be the most serious problem in the world, but it is a familiar one: How do you divide a piece of cake equally between two children and also make sure that each of them sees it as a fair division?
Maskin, Eric S. "Science AMA Series: I am Eric Maskin, Professor of Economics at Harvard and co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics, here to talk about Mechanism Design. AMA!" Reddit, 19 Jun. 2014.
This proverb operates with the force of law and in a sense is the doctrine of contributory negligence. I have a right to compensation for damage you have done me unless I have done something which impinges on your rights. If your camel destroys my crops, my rights have been violated, but if had used your camel without your permission, and he got out of control. I right is cancelled out. In a larger sense, this principle is used globally in international disputes. The Israeli right to live in peace has been, in the view of some Arabs, “cancelled out” by the fact that the Israelis have taken others land.
Up Front was a book of cartoons with his two GI characters, Willie and Joe. The quote is from their dialogue. Up Front which won the Pulitzer Prize.
FDR was hoping to defeat or at least stop Hitler and Germany by arming England and Russia and thus avoid having American troops committed. However. when the Japanese launched their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hitler immediately declared war on the United States, and our troops were suddenly in a two continent war.
Referring to community participation and consultation on urban development:
This statement was made before there was a Civil Rights Act or a Voting Rights Act and racial discrimination was rampant in America.
Eric Stark Maskin is an American economist and 2007 Nobel laureate recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". He is currently Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard University.
