In the early 1990s, there was a debate among economists over shock therapy versus a gradualism strategy for Russia. The people in… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
If you keep tax cuts for the wealthiest, it won't stimulate the economy, but it will add to the deficit. And, really,… — Heather Boushey Copy Share Image
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to… — Almeida Garrett Copy Share Image
Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some 'reputable' economist,… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
I'm not going to put my lot in with economists, because I know if we get it right, if we actually did… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“As I now see it, America had no business involving itself in a series of distant convulsions where the ideas, variously interpreted,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions,… — Vicente del Bosque Copy Share Image
With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
If the economists are arguing as to whether we need to cut or stimulate, because they're completely opposite policies, and they can't… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
I think one could argue that there's more political input into the regulatory side, and on the regulatory side there seem to… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry.… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is… — Mo Udall Copy Share Image
Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Economists and financial analysts are not like steelworkers or people in other occupations. They don't get evaluated based on their performance. They… — Dean Baker Copy Share Image
These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I'm delighted when people respond with passion and readily intensity to my work. Literature is not as the economist would put it… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect;… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
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