Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly news magazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over… — John Fund Copy Share Image
I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world.… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I have been…moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Stiglitz is not a Left economist. Indeed, it would be difficult to find a more authentic insider and establishment figure than Stiglitz. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks. — Dan Kaminsky Copy Share Image
The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be. — William Nordhaus Copy Share Image
Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
While I tend to side with economist Milton Freidman when it comes to free-market economics, there is a place for 'Made in… — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity. — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
