Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested,… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would… — Roy Lessin Copy Share Image
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow. — Rebecca M. Blank Copy Share Image
Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would. — Dennis Holme Robertson Copy Share Image
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage. — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know? — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful… — Paul Ormerod 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
What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions,… — Vicente del Bosque Copy Share Image
An American economist of two generations ago, H. J. Davenport, who was the best friend Thorstein Veblen ever had (Veblen actually lived… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader… — Josefina Vazquez Mota Copy Share Image
Combining valuable insights from his experience in China, his time as the World Bank's chief economist, and the 2008 financial crisis, Justin… — Kemal Dervis Copy Share Image
