Frasi di Robin C. Matthews

Robert Charles Oliver Matthews, meglio noto come Robin C. Matthews , è stato un economista e compositore di scacchi britannico.

Studiò alla Edinburgh Academy e al Corpus Christi College di Oxford. Fu Fellow del All Souls College di Oxford e Professore di economia politica all'Università di Oxford dal 1965 al 1975 e all'Università di Cambridge dal 1980 al 1991. Fu anche rettore del Clare College di Cambridge dal 1975 al 1993.

Membro della British Academy e Cavaliere dell'Ordine dell'Impero Britannico .

Autore di molti libri di economia, tra cui:

The Trade Cycle, Cambridge University Press, 1960

A Study in Trade-Cycle History: Economic Fluctuations in Great Britain 1833-1842, 1954

Economic Growth and Resources, Palgrave Macmillan, 1980

Economic Growth and Resources: Volume 2, Trends and Factors, Palgrave Macmillan, 1980

British Economic Growth 1856-1973 , Clarendon Press, 1982Robin Matthews è stato anche un compositore di problemi di scacchi di primissimo livello.

Specializzato nella composizione di problemi di matto in tre mosse, è considerato in questo campo tra i maggiori esponenti a livello mondiale.

Nel 1965 la PCCC gli assegnò il titolo di Maestro Internazionale della composizione.

Autore di due libri sui problemi di scacchi:

Chess Problems: Introduction to an art , Londra, 1963

Mostly Three-Movers: Collected Chess Problems 1939-1993, Feenschach-Phénix, Aachen, 1995Due suoi problemi: Wikipedia

✵ 16. Giugno 1927 – 19. Giugno 2010

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Robin C. Matthews: Frasi in inglese

“R. C. O. Matthews (1986), "Presidential Address to the Royal Economic Society." as cited in Eggertsson”

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1990; 31-32

“[Neoinstitutional Economics…] theory has made an indispensable contribution in recent times to advances of understanding in this area. But it seems to me that in the economics of institutions theory is now outstripping empirical research to an excessive extent. No doubt the same could be said of other fields in economics, but there is a particular point about this one. Theoretical modelling may or may not be more difficult in this field than in others, but empirical work is confronted by a special difficulty. Because economic institutions are complex, they do not lend themselves easily to quantitative measurement. Even in the respects in which they do, the data very often are not routinely collected by national statistical offices. As a result, the statistical approach which has become the bread and butter of applied economics is not straightforwardly applicable. Examples of it do exist, the literature on the economics of slavery being perhaps the most fully developed - not surprisingly because slavery is an institution that is sharply defined. But to a large extent the empirical literature has consisted of case-studies which are interesting but not necessarily representative, together with a certain amount on legal court cases, which are almost certainly not representative. Is this the best we can do? There is a challenge here on the empirical side to economists to see what is the best way forward.”

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“The fundamental idea of transaction costs is that they consist of the cost of arranging a contract ex ante and monitoring and enforcing it ex post, as opposed to production costs, which are the costs of executing a contract.”

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Origine: "The Economics of Institutions and the Sources of Growth." 1986, p. 904; as cited in Eggertsson (1990; 14)

“"The chief fault in English economists at the beginning of the [nineteenth] century was… that they did not see how liable to change are the habits and institutions of industry." Thus Marshall in his inaugural lecture as Professor of Political Economy in Cambridge, referring to Ricardo (Marshall 1885, p. 155). In the circumstances of that occasion, the remark may have been intended in some part as an olive branch, because the only other serious contender for the Chair had been the High Tory economic historian William Cunningham, Archdeacon of Ely, famous as an anti-theoretical institutionalist and famous also as a polemicist - he was the clergyman who once told his congregation that for him the bliss of Heaven would be incomplete if it lacked the pleasures of controversy.”

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Origine: "The Economics of Institutions and the Sources of Growth." 1986, p. 903

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