If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never… — Jerry Brown 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
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric… — James Buchan 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
[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences… — Mark Blaug Copy Share Image
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We've had a number of economists supporting our legislation. And here's where we are. The American people can judge. Six largest financial… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of… — Janet Yellen 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 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
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
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
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
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
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