Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth — Bruno Frey Copy Share Image
When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of… — Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod Copy Share Image
It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I mean, you just go down the line, and with any of these issues, it's about rich people staying rich. And using… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future,… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
If you ask any economist, they'll tell you all the mortgage interest deduction does is raise the price of the house. So… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The problem is that people really just don't care and they have been "educated" not to care about the monetary system: that… — Bernard von NotHaus Copy Share Image
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media. — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes! — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen. —Earl Wilson” — Eric Siegel Copy Share Image
