I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians… — Gavyn Davies Copy Share Image
If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over… — John Fund Copy Share Image
Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large,… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world.… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity.… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Anyone with special abilities earns a differential return on that flair, which we economists call a rent. Those few with extraordinary P.Q.… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
