“In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men. — Kirk Kerkorian Copy Share Image
I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it. — William Easterly Copy Share Image
It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,'… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Contrary to economists' beliefs, the informal sectors of the world's economies, in total, are predominant, and the institutionalized, monetized sectors grow out… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
Economists have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the "free market." It does not describe any part of reality, at any… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank… — Ed Balls Copy Share Image
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“That economics has a considerable conceptual apparatus with an appropriate terminology can not be a serious ground for complaint. Economic phenomena, ideas,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“The protest has won the backing of prominent economists, including Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia University academic, and Andy Haldane, chief economist at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Ben Bernanke is like an economist on a misty morning, because he hasn’t the foggiest clue.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women. — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
