Economist Quotes · Page 4

“A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Knowledge advances, funeral by funeral,” the economist Paul Samuelson once observed.”

— Nicholas Wade

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

— Peter Lynch

“Toa msaada katika jamii iliyosaidia kukulea ulipokuwa mdogo.”

— Enock Maregesi

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

— Harold Innis

I guess economists, it’s a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field,

— Christine Lagarde

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.

— Henry Hazlitt

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked…

— Paul Krugman

The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration…

— Kurt Bills

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

— Friedrich Engels

The main thing that you learn in grad school, or should learn, is how to think like an economist. The rest is…

— Richard Thaler

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

— Paul Krugman

Manmohan Singh is the best politician India has seen. I can't say the same about him as an economist.

— Arun Jaitley

“If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.”

— Amit Kalantri

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would…

— Roy Lessin

But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory…

— Paul Ormerod

Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which…

— Friedrich Engels

If your employer pays your health insurance, that's not counted as income to you. And any economist would say that's your income,…

— T.R. Reid

Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as…

— John Derbyshire

The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists…

— Ludwig von Mises

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part.…

— Muhammad Yunus

Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this…

— Robert J. Shiller

“The task of the economist is not merely, as in equilibrium theory, to examine the logical consistency of various modes of action,…

— Ludwig Lachmann

Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known…

— Petr Skrabanek

Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will…

— Malcolm Gladwell

We economists, in our classes, teach students that to some degree, price discrimination is actually a good thing; that it allows you…

— Uwe Reinhardt

The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there…

— Rebecca Solnit

In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

If you go back to Adam Smith, you find the idea that markets and market forces operate as an invisible hand. This…

— Michael Sandel

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial…

— Victor Cousin

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Is Not An Economist, She Is A Demographer

— Tam David-West

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

— George Bernard Shaw

I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'.

— Harry S. Truman

There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.

— Tim Harford

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

— Al Nichol

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

— Albert Einstein

I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist.

— Mike Duke