Oskar Morgenstern citations

Oskar Morgenstern, né le 24 juin 1902 à Görlitz, Royaume de Saxe et mort le 26 juillet 1977 à Princeton, New Jersey, États-Unis, est un mathématicien et économiste, allemand puis américain.

Il est connu pour son ouvrage Theory of Games and Economic Behavior publié en 1944 avec John von Neumann. Wikipedia

✵ 24. janvier 1902 – 26. juillet 1977

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Oskar Morgenstern: Citations en anglais

“As far as the use of mathematics in economics is concerned, there is an abundance of formulas where such are not needed. They are frequently introduced, one fears, in order to show off. The more difficult the mathematical theorem, the more esoteric the name of the mathematician quoted, the better.”

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Oskar Morgenstern, " Limits of the Use of Mathematics in Economics https://www.princeton.edu/~erp/ERParchives/archivepdfs/M49.pdf," in: James C. Charlesworth (Hg.), Mathematics and the Social Science. The Utility and Inutility of Mathematics in the Study of Economics, Political Sciences and Sociology, Philadelphia 1963, S. 12-29, hier S. 18.

“Wherever mathematics has entered it has never again been pushed out by other developments. The mathematization of an area of human endeavor is not a passing fad; it is the prime mover of scientific and technological progress.”

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Oskar Morgenstern (Mathematica/Mathematic Policy Research), (from "A Look Back at Some of Our Contributions Over Time")

“All economic decisions, whether private or business, as well as those involving economic policy, have the characteristic that quantitative and non-quantitative information must be combined into one act of decision. It would be desirable to understand how these two classes of information can best be combined.”

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Attributed to Morgenstern in: John H. McArthur, ‎Bruce R. Scott (1969), Industrial planning in France. p. 21.

“Alliances are always weaker in peacetime; alliances tend to become hard and fast and strong when things are going badly… but when things are going well, cooperation is hard to achieve.”

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Source: National Security: Political, Military, Economic Strategies Decade Ahead, (1963), p. 678.

“Recovery is therefore something much more elemental. It aims at continuation of life, on a simple and primitive basis. From mere survival, in view of perhaps a hundred million people killed within a few days, to the construction of a society which adheres to the lofty ideas we cherish today is a long way. And the survivors may develop ideals so different from ours that we may not recognize the country— should we live to make the comparison, or, living, should we care to make it even if we could.”

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Oskar Morgenstern (1959), The Question of National Defense, p. 129.