It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something. — Nolan Gould Copy Share Image
The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Joel Waldfogel is one of the smartest and funniest economists on the planet. I think of him every time I start to… — Ian Ayres Copy Share Image
We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote… — James K. Galbraith Copy Share Image
According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going… — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions. — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
I love magazines. I always read 'Time,' 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist.' When I get my hair cut, French 'Vogue,' French 'Elle,' 'Paris… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist. — Diane Coyle Copy Share Image
I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is… — Robert Lucas, Jr Copy Share Image
'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
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