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