As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power. — Sarah Steelman Copy Share Image
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development. — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily… — David Hemenway Copy Share Image
At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
“Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy,… — Steve Keen Copy Share Image
We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
he economy favors throughput over quality and craftsmanship, and economists are terrified because the American savings rate has crept upward from about… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What would've happened, do you think, had the government not intervened in October 2008? The catastrophe to the economy would've been absolutely… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
We need economic policies in the U.S. that produce jobs, first of all, but good jobs, second of all. Believe it or… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Economists may not know much. But we know one thing very well: how to produce surpluses and shortages. Do you want a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Economics is really about two stories. One is the story of the old economist and younger economist walking down the street, and… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still… — Arthur Cecil Pigou Copy Share Image
Given the large uncertainties at each major step of the case for reliance on a carbon tax, economists should reconsider their current… — Robert P. Murphy Copy Share Image
“Kenneth Boulding’s bon mot, ‘To believe that the economy can grow forever in a finite world, you have to be a madman… — Wolfgang Sachs Copy Share Image
Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me… — Todd Rokita Copy Share Image
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Shopping for an annuity with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake can be daunting, even for an economist. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists. — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage. — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
