The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Contrary to economists' beliefs, the informal sectors of the world's economies, in total, are predominant, and the institutionalized, monetized sectors grow out… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
I argue that in the long run, the US would be on a far more financially secure footing if we recalibrate how… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
If you keep tax cuts for the wealthiest, it won't stimulate the economy, but it will add to the deficit. And, really,… — Heather Boushey Copy Share Image
I think one could argue that there's more political input into the regulatory side, and on the regulatory side there seem to… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Economists and financial analysts are not like steelworkers or people in other occupations. They don't get evaluated based on their performance. They… — Dean Baker Copy Share Image
If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
