Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..." — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
A respected health economist said that these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I have 'The Economist' and the 'New Scientist' on my bedside table - and 'GQ,' of course. — Ethan Peck Copy Share Image
The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say. — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization — George Stigler Copy Share Image
My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist. — Mart Laar Copy Share Image
An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know? — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of… — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered… — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
“Before the invention of the GDP, economists were rarely quoted by the press, but in the years after World War II they… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The drilling idea is spherically senseless - it's senseless from whatever point of view you look at it. It'd take 10 years… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
When you think of policies that are going to address inequality of wealth, you have to be very thoughtful about what economists… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
