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
A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something. — Nolan Gould Copy Share Image
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen. —Earl Wilson” — Eric Siegel Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank… — Ed Balls Copy Share Image
Combining valuable insights from his experience in China, his time as the World Bank's chief economist, and the 2008 financial crisis, Justin… — Kemal Dervis Copy Share Image
We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would… — Roy Lessin Copy Share Image
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes! — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people. — Richard Thaler 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
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of… — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
If your employer pays your health insurance, that's not counted as income to you. And any economist would say that's your income,… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect;… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image