Quotes About Allocation

The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Every year, I have given Rs 20,000 crore worth of projects to HAL. But the previous UPA government gave just Rs 10,000 crore projects.

Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

We give money to the E.U. and they give it back according to the priorities they choose, with an unelected group of people choosing those priorities.

Government is about priorities.

We need to prioritize those expenditures of the federal government in A, B and C priorities... And I believe that on the C priority list are things like the Departments of Education and Energy, and those are the places where we should begin those defunding.

Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.

I think it's true - economically, you want to bake a bigger cake rather than slicing up an existing cake differently.

Every community needs to get its fair share of services.

This may not be the most serious problem in the world, but it is a familiar one: How do you divide a piece of cake equally between two children and also make sure that each of them sees it as a fair division?

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.

Smith did not regard economic freedom as the sum of politics, nor did he believe that self-interest is the only, or even the most important, motive governing our economic behaviour. A market can deliver a rational allocation of goods and services only where there is trust between its participants, and trust exists only where people take responsibility for their actions and make themselves accountable to those with whom they deal. In other words, economic order depends on moral order.

The next day, Cortelyou put $25 million in government funds at Pierpont's disposal

We need to triage those six hundred places.

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

He said that it should be on the basis of need. People who couldn't come up with a good reason to drive would not be allocated a licence. They would have to use public transport." Ulf sighed. This was typical of the Moderate Extremists: an impossible policy, dressed up in Utopian language, and destined—if not actually calculated—to antagonise at least one large segment of the population.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

The fact is that the preference for ignorance over even marginal reductions in ignorance is never the moral high ground. If decisions are made under a self-imposed state of higher uncertainty, policy makers (or even businesses like, say, airplane manufacturers) are betting on our lives with a higher chance of erroneous allocation of limited resources. In measurement, as in many other human endeavors, ignorance is not only wasteful but can also be dangerous.

A budget is a moral document.

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

el Gobierno y la industria no se asignaban a los más trabajadores ni a los más capaces, sino a los más leales.

And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state.