“An efficient marriage market develops ‘‘shadow’’ prices to guide participants to marriages that will maximize their expected well-being. These prices, central to the analysis in this chapter and the subsequent one, are responsible for the more powerful implications found in these chapters than in traditional discussions of marriage. Some other approaches are evaluated in Chapter 4.”
Source: A Treatise on the Family, 1981, p. 39
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Source: Organizations and organization theory, 1982, p. 209

“The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.”
To Solomon Dayrolles (16 February 1753)

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“John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.”
Source: The Yellow Wall-Paper

Ohlin (1924), quoted (and translated) in: Eli Filip Heckscher, Bertil Gotthard Ohlin, Henry Flam Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory, (1991), p. 76.
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"Divorce" (1771)
Citas, Questions sur l'Encyclopédie (1770–1774)

“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”