Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper. — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider. — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
“The World Bank has not invariably been my favorite organization. The power to do good goes almost always with the possibility to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets,… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
“I try to kind of enlightened my frustration and agony by coming to the conclusion that I may not be useful as… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a… — Joaquin Fuster Copy Share Image
It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. ...… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe… — Hans-Werner Sinn Copy Share Image
An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others. — Edward Glaeser Copy Share Image
The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to spend any more time inside the mind of an economist. It was dark and disturbing.” — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow. — Rebecca M. Blank Copy Share Image
I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop. — Herbert Stein Copy Share Image
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
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