Economists are said to disagree too much but in ways that are too much alike: If eight sleep in the same bed,… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
One of the fairly interesting things about money is that it makes certain things possible that wouldn't be possible otherwise - it… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Moyo, a Zambia-born economist, asserts that aid is not only ineffective-it's harmful. Her argument packs a strong punch because she was born… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
“Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
One independent expert - actually, the economist who advised John McCain in 2008, so, you know, not somebody that has any predisposition… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The study of economic organization commonly proceeds as though market and administrative modes of organization were disjunct. Market organization is the province… — Oliver E. Williamson Copy Share Image
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming,… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
It's because finance is so baffling that makes being an economist such a safe option. It nestles down comfortably with psychiatry and… — Dominic Holland Copy Share Image
I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
Economists often define their discipline as "the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends." But when resources or money really become scarce,… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
I never understand why 'economist makes forecast' is ever a headline. Whether the economist in question is from the International Monetary Fund,… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“We both approach the world as economists, and as economists resigned to - and sometimes even reveling in - the character defect… — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Anyone with special abilities earns a differential return on that flair, which we economists call a rent. Those few with extraordinary P.Q.… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they… — Alan Blinder Copy Share Image
I'm struck by how very few people outside a rarefied world of true believers understand what you mean when you say human… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
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