Oliver E. Williamson Quotes
The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
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A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.
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Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
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A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.
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Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.
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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.
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Food is a lens for culture.
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Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
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Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.
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A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.
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I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
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I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.
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The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
