“I am not an economist, but things are not as bad as they seem. I have a great deal of confidence in… — Walt Elias Disney Copy Share Image
As a former economist at the Bank of England, I know the damage that is done when our institutions are undermined: working… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While I haven't read economist Robin Hahnel's work, replacing capitalism would be at the very bottom of my list of priorities -… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There's absolutely no… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?' — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend the economist Julianne Malveaux says: Don't marry a gay… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied… — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested,… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
For the last several decades, there was a prevailing belief among traditional economists that the markets were rational and self-correcting. Alan Greenspan… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth.… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of… — Katty Kay Copy Share Image
The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity.… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they… — Alan Blinder Copy Share Image
I'm struck by how very few people outside a rarefied world of true believers understand what you mean when you say human… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“We both approach the world as economists, and as economists resigned to - and sometimes even reveling in - the character defect… — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Anyone with special abilities earns a differential return on that flair, which we economists call a rent. Those few with extraordinary P.Q.… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
