It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.
My interest in economics just basically comes because I think I'm a curious person, and I'm interested in how the world works.
The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
Science isn't just about solving this or that puzzle. It's about understanding how the world works: the whole world from the vastness of the cosmos to the particularity of an individual human life. It's worth thinking about how all the different ways we have to talk about the world manage to fit together.
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
What's happening in the world is a natural course of events.
I actually like seeing how the world - trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there's some sort of order to the universe.
When we look at policy, it's important we make sure that it's up to date and reflective of the way the world works today - and where the world is heading in the future.
That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.
The mind knows...that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that restricts our world's path to points that tell an internally consistent story.
Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.
I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.
Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible.
My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this.
Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
I always believed that social science was a progressive profession because it was the powerful who had the most to hide about how the world actually worked and if you could show how the world actually worked it would always have a de-masking and a subversive effect on the powerful. I don't think that's quite true, but it seems to me it's not bad as a point of departure anyway.
