American Economic Review, No.1, 1999"The intimate contest for self-command" by Thomas Schelling.
Translated into the realm of personal saving, this is precisely the quirk in our nature that Messrs Thaler and Benartzi exploit when they ask people to save more not today, but tomorrow.This quirk sets up an "intimate contest for self-command", as Thomas Schelling, a winner of last year's Nobel prize for economics, puts it.
In many instances, these cameras and microphones deliver an on-demand service, so they must wait for us to intimate our next need or command.
Influenced by the formal dexterity of Thomas Hardy and the narrative sweep of George Meredith — and impressed by the compression of Hemingway's short stories — Walcott forged a style that was taut yet stately, commanding and yet intimate in its local detail.
In her black tennis shoes, white bloomers, red shmatte and strand of outrageously clunky pearls, Grandma commands Big Apple's intimate single ring, conveying at once feistiness, mousiness, acrobatic grace, prankishness and a transgressive streak as wide as a clown shoe.
He has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage.
We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman.
This Parisian bartender was decidedly French, but his command of English and intimate knowledge of New York gastronomy marked him as one of those world citizens who made regular trips to Brooklyn.
Despite occasional foot-in-the-mouth problems, the vice president has an intimate knowledge of the way Washington works and commands respect — and even affection — from more than a few Republicans.
Two centuries later, gossip attributes the tension between Mr. Rumsfeld and Mr. Powell to the former's unexpected nomination at defense, which in turn scuttled the choice of a Powell intimate, Richard Armitage, to be the Pentagon's second in command.
