Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop. — Herbert Stein Copy Share Image
As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
“The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I'm delighted when people respond with passion and readily intensity to my work. Literature is not as the economist would put it… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth — Bruno Frey Copy Share Image
“In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I love magazines. I always read 'Time,' 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist.' When I get my hair cut, French 'Vogue,' French 'Elle,' 'Paris… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
