I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Economists often define their discipline as "the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends." But when resources or money really become scarce,… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it. — William Easterly Copy Share Image
Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you go back to Adam Smith, you find the idea that markets and market forces operate as an invisible hand. This… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes! — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going… — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
