Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..." — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Knowledge advances, funeral by funeral,” the economist Paul Samuelson once observed.” — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I guess economists, it’s a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field, — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be. — William Nordhaus Copy Share Image
Stiglitz is not a Left economist. Indeed, it would be difficult to find a more authentic insider and establishment figure than Stiglitz. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks. — Dan Kaminsky Copy Share Image
I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
“I try to kind of enlightened my frustration and agony by coming to the conclusion that I may not be useful as… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future,… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
I mean, you just go down the line, and with any of these issues, it's about rich people staying rich. And using… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
When you think of policies that are going to address inequality of wealth, you have to be very thoughtful about what economists… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered… — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
“Before the invention of the GDP, economists were rarely quoted by the press, but in the years after World War II they… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
