Rodrik Quotes

#1. There is always someone quicker and stronger, Ser Rodrik had once told Jon and Robb. He's the man you want to face in the yard before you need to face his like upon a battlefield.

George R R Martin

#2. Know your foe, Ser Rodrik had taught him once.

George R R Martin

#3. Yes," Ser Rodrik agreed. "I haven't wanted to die for almost two days now." He bowed to Catelyn. "My lady.

George R R Martin

#4. Ser Rodrik groused. His opinion of singers was well known; music was a lovely thing for girls, but he could not comprehend why any healthy boy would fill his hand with a harp when he might have had a sword.

George R R Martin

#5. Lord Rodrik Harlaw was neither fat nor slim; neither tall nor short; neither ugly nor handsome. His hair was brown, as were his eyes, though the short, neat beard he favored had gone grey. All in all, he was an ordinary man, distinguished only by his love of written words.

George R R Martin

#6. policy discussion usually means pitting one model against another. Viewpoints and policy prescriptions that aren't backed by a model typically don't have standing.

Dani Rodrik

#7. Death from the skies!

Ransom Riggs

#8. Regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, everyone births things into reality.

Margaret Ann Lembo

#9. The correct answer to almost any question in economics is: It depends.

Dani Rodrik

#10. What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.

Dani Rodrik

#11. Feng shui isn't open to interpretation.

Rob Lowe

#12. Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

Alfred Kinsey

#13. When economists get it right, the world gets better.

Dani Rodrik

#14. The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by 'one-handed' economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.

Dani Rodrik

#15. I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old
he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

Talib Kweli

#16. The economics we need is of the "seminar room" variety, not the "rule-of-thumb" kind. It is an economics that recognizes its limitations and caveats and knows that the right message depends on the context. The fine print is what economists have to contribute.

Dani Rodrik

#17. when a consensus forms around the universal applicability of a conclusion from a specific model, the critical assumptions of which are likely to be violated in many settings - as with perfect competition, say, or full consumer information - we have a problem.

Dani Rodrik

#18. These results stand in sharp contrast to the hype that microfinance has attracted in development policy circles. They throw cold water on models that suggest lack of access to finance is among the most important constraints that poor households face.

Dani Rodrik

#19. Field experiments to date have shown that microfinance - the provision of small loans, typically to women or groups of women - is not particularly effective in reducing poverty.14

Dani Rodrik

#20. An economists' consensus is perhaps more a rarity than a regularity. But when it happens, we need to pause and take stock.

Dani Rodrik

#21. Do good, we will meet one another there.

Pope Francis

#22. Why should we allow international markets to erode domestic labor regulations through the back door when we do not allow domestic markets to do the same? The

Dani Rodrik

#23. If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting besides market prices.

Dani Rodrik

#24. When globalization collides with domestic politics, the smart money bets on politics.

Dani Rodrik