If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men. — Kirk Kerkorian Copy Share Image
If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
While I tend to side with economist Milton Freidman when it comes to free-market economics, there is a place for 'Made in… — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of… — Katty Kay Copy Share Image
Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth.… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
“Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy,… — Steve Keen Copy Share Image
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms… — Matthew Rabin Copy Share Image
You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
It's usually much easier for people with professional skills to find work for themselves or even possibly to continue with their old… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Rent control is one policy that economists universally would oppose. It is a grossly inefficient way of allocating housing space and, of… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity. — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Economists may not know how to run the economy, but they know how to create shortages or gluts simply by regulating prices… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
