Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of… — Elizabeth Warren 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
People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
“If ordinary citizens knew or ever really [understood] how our political leaders have allowed unemployment to be used as a tool for… — William Vickery, Canadian Nobel laureate, The Cult of Impotence, by Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — John Maynard Keynes 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
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
Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences… — Mark Blaug Copy Share Image
Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
If the economists are arguing as to whether we need to cut or stimulate, because they're completely opposite policies, and they can't… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
“When economists base their models on their fantasies of an "economic man" motivated only by self-interest, they forget community--the all-important web of… — Cacilda Jethá 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
As a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists. Others interested in helping… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
“Among the members of these upper income groups are US academic economists, many of whom believe that the economy of the United… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
American economists can't understand the German fear of inflation and the effects of inflation when dealing with the world economic crisis. They… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
During the two centuries since the publication of 'The Wealth of Nations,' the main activity of economists, it seems to me, has… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
“For far too long, economists have neglected the distribution of wealth, partly because of Kuznets’s optimistic conclusions and partly because of the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“The joint committee invited economists of many economic stripes to model what would happen if America switched from the current code to… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
Some economists seem to think that only a credentialed economist has the right to be utterly wrong about an issue of economics.… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they… — Alan Blinder Copy Share Image
“The quality of economists cannot be measured … by the nature of the economic life which surrounds them, but only by the… — Emil kauder Copy Share Image
Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
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