A Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

Kenneth E. Boulding

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Also Brought Economics Mathematics Rigor Unfortunately

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Kenneth E. Boulding
American - Economist
January 18, 1910 - March 18, 1993

The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.

Robert Heilbroner

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

Robert Heilbroner

I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.

Christian Kane

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

Lawrence R. Klein

Goku: But I'm so hungry, I have rigor mortis!

Kazuya Minekura

Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

Maggie Kuhn

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

Bill Jay

It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous old definition attributed to Jacob Viner, "Economics is what economists do," and say that mathematics is what mathematicians do. A large part of mathematics deals with the formal relations of quantities or numbers.

Kenneth E. Boulding

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

Isaac Marion

Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment.

Benjamin Graham

I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return.

Pier Luigi Bersani

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

Tom Robbins

My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages, who brought about the period, or ushered in or initiated the atmosphere that brought into Europe the period known as the Renaissance.

Malcolm X

I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

Douglas Brinkley

I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.