An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would. — Dennis Holme Robertson Copy Share Image
History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
“Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips. — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions. — Herbert Stein Copy Share Image
I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as… — Hans-Werner Sinn Copy Share Image
Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare… — George Soros Copy Share Image
It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets,… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“The World Bank has not invariably been my favorite organization. The power to do good goes almost always with the possibility to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
“The task of the economist is not merely, as in equilibrium theory, to examine the logical consistency of various modes of action,… — Ludwig Lachmann Copy Share Image
A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“The protest has won the backing of prominent economists, including Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia University academic, and Andy Haldane, chief economist at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves. — David I. Rozenberg Copy Share Image
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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