I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development. — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect;… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject,… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The problem is that people really just don't care and they have been "educated" not to care about the monetary system: that… — Bernard von NotHaus Copy Share Image
I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe… — Hans-Werner Sinn Copy Share Image
I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
