Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend the economist Julianne Malveaux says: Don't marry a gay… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?' — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
As a former economist at the Bank of England, I know the damage that is done when our institutions are undermined: working… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
If I know what to spec, and I can measure it, and there are no unpredictable interdependencies between what you do and… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold… — Benjamin Graham 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
Economists have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the "free market." It does not describe any part of reality, at any… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Contrary to economists' beliefs, the informal sectors of the world's economies, in total, are predominant, and the institutionalized, monetized sectors grow out… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a… — Joaquin Fuster Copy Share Image
It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“I am not an economist, but things are not as bad as they seem. I have a great deal of confidence in… — Walt Elias Disney Copy Share Image
You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media. — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. — Nate Silver 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
Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth — Bruno Frey Copy Share Image
When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful. — Paul Krugman 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
An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others. — Edward Glaeser Copy Share Image
