Author of quotes: Anatoly Wasserman

The proportion of correct decisions made by a person can serve as a quantitative assessment of the mind. And again, as far as I can tell, people who make the right decisions in a fairly wide area can be considered smart in general. In addition, the mind is also a profitable business, and, as a rule, those who improve faster and do not hesitate to learn constantly turn out to be smarter.

Individual rights specified in the Constitution, can only be achieved by the efforts of society as a whole. And for that society must be sustainable. And, accordingly, the concept of individual rights is unacceptable to include something that directly contradicts sustainability because then we put mutually conflicting objectives.

Human well-being depends on the well-being of society. And this well-being includes, among other things, and the multitude. Because the more people, the easier it is to organize different forms of division of labour that will enhance the welfare of society.

It is not in the Higher school of Economics as such. There is good teaching for all, except for economy. It is in that concept which underlies these theories, the belief in the beneficence of unlimited freedom of the individual without regard for society. This belief deprives its adherents willingness and ability to explore the patterns emerging at the level of society as a whole. But if you don't see these patterns, it is about the same as if the captain of a sailing ship tried somewhere to swim, essentially ignoring the concept of "wind."

The longer the current elite of the nation will broadcast the fact that great achievements under Stalin was achieved at the cost of sacrificing the then elite of the nation, the more people will be convinced that he is not sacrificing the current elite of the nation, the great achievements not achieved.

We are accused because the gas supposedly used in the assassination attempt, developed in our Union. The logic is compelling: if the poison is composed of elements from the periodic system of Mendeleev, and Mendeleev - Russian, Russian, and the guilty

Self-study our mistakes to not repeat them, and make their own.

Under private ownership of the means of production is obviously impossible to collect all the information necessary for proper planning: each market entity hopes to gain by hiding the available data, although this hope is justified very rarely.

A high standard of living in developed countries is primarily the result of decades of international solidarity of workers. Now she's forgotten. Proletarians of the developed countries bribed by benefits, almost gratuitous, thanks to the poverty of all, to whom solidarity has not spread.

The idea of justice people have different and often changing depending on the current status of a person.

The collective maintenance of the resource can be more profitable than charging individual consumers of the resource.

Economics is the science (and often art) of the disposition of limited resources.

If all newly emerging information will be paid (as do the advocates of the current law on the right of copy), the development of mankind if you don't stop at all, at least many times will slow down. That will hit all types of art, including covered legislative "protection".

The value of information previously unknown to anyone.