Economist Quotes · Page 9

Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as…

— Helen Keller

How should the best parts of psychology and economics interrelate in an enlightened economist's mind?... I think that these behavioral economics...or economists…

— Charlie Munger

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was…

— Martin Feldstein

Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets,…

— Duncan Green

There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a…

— Martin Shubik

The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study…

— Timothy Noah

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.

— Tim Harford

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

— Harold Innis

It's usually much easier for people with professional skills to find work for themselves or even possibly to continue with their old…

— Hedrick Smith

Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

— David Attenborough

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state…

— Shereen El Feki

It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that…

— Vaclav Klaus

Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had…

— Molly Ivins

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult…

— Greg Graffin

I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.

— Alan Greenspan

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

— Anonymous

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.

— Joan Robinson

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll…

— Mark Skousen

They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being…

— Joseph Stiglitz

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

— Robert Menzies

In the early 1990s, there was a debate among economists over shock therapy versus a gradualism strategy for Russia. The people in…

— Joseph Stiglitz

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me…

— Linda McQuaig