Acemoglu And Robinson Quotes & Sayings

I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes; that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal. — Clint Eastwood

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books. — Andrew Wylie

Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth of Nations is still being read today. With the same perspicacity and with the same broad historical perspective, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson have retackled this same question for our own times. Two centuries from now our great-great- ... -great grandchildren will be, similarly, reading Why Nations Fail. — George Akerlof

He produced a cell phone and hit one button before pressing it to his ear. "Hey. I have someone here to see you?....No, it isn't Michael Fassbender. I don't even know who that is. — Liz Schulte

academic literature. Major influences on my thinking include Douglass North, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on institutions; the pre-eminent economist of modern Africa, Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion and Plundered Planet; Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian economist and author of The Mystery of Capital; Andrei Shleifer and his numerous co-authors, who have pioneered an economic approach to the comparative study of legal systems; and Jim Robinson and Daron Acemoglu, whose book Why Nations Fail asks similar questions to the ones that interest me. — Niall Ferguson

When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence. — Louise Cowan

It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat. — Arthur Potts Dawson