Quotes from Three Essays — Tjalling Koopmans
1910–1985 Netherlands
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One is led to conclude that economics as a scientific discipline is still somewhat hanging in the air.
Three Essays (1957)
We look upon economic theory as a sequence of conceptual models that seek to express in simplified form different aspects of an always more complicated reality.
Three Essays (1957)
If evolutionary selection is the basis for a belief in profit maximization, 'then we should postulate that basis itself and not the profit maximization which it implies in certain circumstances.
Three Essays (1957)
Decisions and plans made by others... [can be judged to be] quantitatively at least as important as the primary uncertainty arising from random acts of nature and unpredictable changes in consumers' preferences.
Three Essays (1957)
Without recognising indivisibilities — in human person, in residences, plants, equipment, and in transportation — location patterns, down to those of the smallest village, cannot be understood
Three Essays (1957)
The solution of important problems may be delayed because the requisite tools are not perceived. Or the availability of certain tools may lead to an awareness of problems, important or not, that can be solved with their help.
Three Essays (1957)
[This work urges] a clearer separation, in the construction of economic knowledge, between reasoning and recognition of facts, for the better protection of both.
Three Essays (1957)