Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences… — Mark Blaug Copy Share Image
We've had a number of economists supporting our legislation. And here's where we are. The American people can judge. Six largest financial… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry.… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I think one could argue that there's more political input into the regulatory side, and on the regulatory side there seem to… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
If the economists are arguing as to whether we need to cut or stimulate, because they're completely opposite policies, and they can't… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions,… — Vicente del Bosque Copy Share Image
“As I now see it, America had no business involving itself in a series of distant convulsions where the ideas, variously interpreted,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused… — Thomas Sowell 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
These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Economists and financial analysts are not like steelworkers or people in other occupations. They don't get evaluated based on their performance. They… — Dean Baker Copy Share Image
Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is… — Mo Udall Copy Share Image
Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
I would say that folks who have looked at this issue for a long time, whether it's Elizabeth Warren or many other… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject,… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
During my three years as chief economist of the World Bank, labor market issues were looked at through the lens of neoclassical… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Financial security is a constant in my life. I allow my income to constantly expand, no matter what the newspapers and economists… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next… — Ottmar Edenhofer Copy Share Image
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's… — William Foege Copy Share Image
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