Frases de Oskar Morgenstern

Oskar Morgenstern foi um economista austríaco. É considerado um dos fundadores da teoria dos jogos.

Morgenstern trabalhou na Universidade de Viena até ser demitido pelos nazistas em 1938, tendo então emigrado para os Estados Unidos, onde se tornou professor da Universidade de Princeton. O trabalho que mais contribuiu para a sua fama foi Theory of Games and Economic Behavior , escrito em parceria com o renomado matemático John von Neumann, que lançou definitivamente as bases da teoria dos jogos e também da teoria da escolha sob incerteza.

Outro trabalho fundamental, este escrito a solo, foi On the Accuracy of Economic Observations, de 1950. Wikipedia

✵ 24. Janeiro 1902 – 26. Julho 1977

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Oskar Morgenstern: Frases em inglês

“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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Fonte: 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.