Thomas Schelling
# Thomas Schelling

Thomas Schelling (14 de abril de 1921 - 3 de dezembro de 2016) foi um economista americano. Ele recebeu o Prêmio Nobel Memorial de Ciências Econômicas de 2005.
    - There is a distinction between an individual life and a statistical life. Let a 6-year-old girl with brown hair need thousands of dollars for an operation that will prolong her life until Christmas, and the post office will be swamped with nickels and dimes to save her. But let it be reported that without a sales tax the hospital facilities of Massachusetts will deteriorate and cause a barely perceptible increase in preventable deaths—not many will drop a tear or reach for their checkbooks.
       - A vida que você salva pode ser a sua própria. Em: Chase, Samuel B., ed. Problemas na análise de gastos públicos. Estudos de finanças governamentais. Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1968
    - The essence of these tactics is some voluntary but irreversible sacrifice of freedom of choice. They rest on the paradox that the power to constrain an adversary may depend on the power to bind oneself; that, in bargaining, weakness is often strength, freedom may be freedom to capitulate, and to burn bridges behind one may suffice to undo an opponent.
       - Um ensaio sobre barganha
    - By "market" is meant the entire complex of institutions within which people buy and sell and hire and are hired and borrow and lend and trade and contract and shop around to find bargains.
       - Micromotives and Macrobehavior (1978)
    - The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger.
       - Palestra do Prêmio Nobel (2005)