Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On…

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

— Brian Tracy

The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what…

— James Heckman

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

— David Suzuki

Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades. And for…

— Barack Obama

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will…

— Will Rogers

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to…

— Robert Gilpin

When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are…

— Michael Hudson

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

— Emily Oster

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use…

— Barry Ritholtz

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

— Ivan Illich

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It…

— Henry Hazlitt

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

— Mark Zandi