“I didn't want to spend any more time inside the mind of an economist. It was dark and disturbing.” — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow. — Rebecca M. Blank 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
Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,'… — Fernand Braudel 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
The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health;… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. ...… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious… — Peter Blair Henry 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
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going… — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions. — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist. — Diane Coyle 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
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. — George Stigler Copy Share Image