People today don't become economists to make the world a better place. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“A good accountant is someone who told you yesterday what the economists forcast for tomorrow” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the… — Seth Gordon Copy Share Image
If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would. — Dennis Holme Robertson Copy Share Image
Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
Economists have the same occupational hazard as baseball managers and football coaches: Every person on the street knows their job better than… — Kevin Hassett Copy Share Image
The role of the media in economic management is not often recognised even by professional economists. Politicians, however, ignore this at their… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Nobody at CNBC owns gold. Nobody at Bloomberg owns gold. Gold is being constantly talked down by the media, and Fed officials,… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
“Microeconomics concerns things that economists are specifically wrong about, while macroeconomics concerns things economists are wrong about generally. P. J. O’ROURKE, Eat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“All the structural problems that economists had warned about coalesced after 1973–74 to jolt American life. These included sagging productivity, declining competitiveness… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
“[T]he ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
“It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Of all the thankless jobs that economists set for themselves when it comes to educating people about economics, the notion that society… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
“according to the economists, the function of the state was not merely one of ruling the nation, but also that of recasting… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Although the view that, once discovered, ideas can be imitated for free by anybody is pervasive, it is far from the truth.… — Michele Boldrin Copy Share Image
“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
More than any other issue, economists have kind of been boosters for trade. — David Autor Copy Share Image
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
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