If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
The drilling idea is spherically senseless - it's senseless from whatever point of view you look at it. It'd take 10 years… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I mean, you just go down the line, and with any of these issues, it's about rich people staying rich. And using… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist. — Diane Coyle Copy Share Image
A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is… — Mo Udall Copy Share Image
Economists may not know how to run the economy, but they know how to create shortages or gluts simply by regulating prices… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future,… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
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