32 Quotes by William Vickrey

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

We felt it was time we received a report card from the public about how they feel about their court system so we can be guided about what to focus on in the future.

There are some significant concerns, ... especially in the area of whether or not our system is listening carefully to what (litigants) have to say and their ability to participate. This includes how they are treated by the first person they meet to how they perceive what's happening in the courtroom, whether the system is concerned about how people are impacted by what it does and how it does it.

The achievement of a reasonably full degree of employment without accelerating inflation will require development of some additional tool.

This news reflects the great strides that state courts have made to reach out to the public in the past decade.

Ten billion dollars less of deficit means $10 billion less of disposable income ... and a loss of at least 100,000 jobs.

The bottom line for me out of this is that from 1992 to today, researchers can't find a defining reason why the public view of the courts has improved. The only thing that has changed is the way we do business. The good news is we can make a difference.

I had had intimations that (a nomination was) in the works for the Nobel Prize, ... I didn't put my chances more than about 50/50.

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.