People today dont become economists to make the world a…

People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.

— Tim Harford

Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves.

— David I. Rozenberg

I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it…

— Tim Harford

There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.

— Tim Harford

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.

— Tim Harford

You fail today dont mean you will become a failure in life no

— Akhimien Frank Destiny

The trick is to enjoy your life today. Dont wish it away by waiting for better days ahead.

— ZhatsPrincess

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