Charles Plott

Charles Raymond Plott (born July 8, 1938) is an American economist. Quotes preferences ⊕ institutions ⊕ physical possibilities = outcomes ⊕ refers unspecified abstract operator. "The application of laboratory experimental methods to public choice". In C.S. Russell (Ed.), Collective decision making: Applications from public choice theory (1979) What use are experimental results to someone who is interested in something vastly larger and more complicated, perhaps fundamentally different than anything that can be studied in a laboratory setting? Charles Plott, cited in: Michel Meyer (2001), Economic Theory and Explanation, p. 338 Almost anything one says or has said about what society wants or should get is threatened with internal inconsistency. Cited in: Sarah Joseph (2004), Political Theory and Power, p. 22 External links Category:Economists from the United States Category:Living people Category:People from Oklahoma