Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity. — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Given the large uncertainties at each major step of the case for reliance on a carbon tax, economists should reconsider their current… — Robert P. Murphy Copy Share Image
Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It [knowledge] is clearly related to information, which we can now measure; and an economist especially is tempted to regard knowledge as… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy,… — Steve Keen Copy Share Image