Avinash K. Dixit Quotes & Sayings

Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn, one a political scientist and the other an economist, argue that "approval voting" allows voters to express their true preferences without concern for electability.8 Under approval voting, each voter may vote for as many candidates as he wishes. — Avinash K. Dixit

Khrushchev first denounced Stalin's purges at the Soviet Communist Party's 20th Congress. After his dramatic speech, someone in the audience shouted out, asking what Khrushchev had been doing at the time. Khrushchev responded by asking the questioner to please stand up and identify himself. The audience remained silent. Khrushchev replied: "That is what I did, too. — Avinash K. Dixit

putting yourself in others' shoes so as to predict and influence what they will do. We — Avinash K. Dixit

The dummies and slackers, by their mere existence, are imposing a negative externality on the skilled and dedicated, — Avinash K. Dixit

Finding dominant strategies is considerably easier than finding the Holy Grail. (...) It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. In other words, love is a dominant strategy. — Avinash K. Dixit