5 Quotes by Jean Tirole

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    I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

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    We all suffer from flawed thinking and decision making.

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    Not only are we subject to cognitive biases, we also frequently seek out things that reinforce them. We interpret facts through the prism of our beliefs; we read the newspapers and seek the company of people who will confirm us in those beliefs; and thus we stick obstinately to these beliefs, whether or not they are correct.

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    When we think about an economic problem, the first answer that occurs to us is not always the correct one.

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    On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually quite moving for the whole family of course.

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