I believe that economists put decimal points in their…

“and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to…

— Anonymous

I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a…

— Merton Miller

Economists give their predictions to a digit after the decimal point to show that they have a sense of humor.

— Anonymous

There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world…

— Thomas Piketty

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

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant…

— Mario Monti

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

Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

— Simon Kuznets

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

— Ivan Illich

As economists bandy about terms like 'recapitalization,' 'credit lines,' and 'liquidity,' families are facing brutal cuts to their social services and welfare payments, losing…

— Sharan Burrow

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