All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the… — Seth Gordon Copy Share Image
The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to make sense of the data,… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know? — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Joel Waldfogel is one of the smartest and funniest economists on the planet. I think of him every time I start to… — Ian Ayres Copy Share Image
Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
he economy favors throughput over quality and craftsmanship, and economists are terrified because the American savings rate has crept upward from about… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts … He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large,… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote… — James K. Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The problem is that people really just don't care and they have been "educated" not to care about the monetary system: that… — Bernard von NotHaus Copy Share Image
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader… — Josefina Vazquez Mota Copy Share Image
Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Although the world has changed dramatically since 1843, we believe that the values that guide 'The Economist' are as relevant as ever. — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it. — William Easterly Copy Share Image
“If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Manmohan Singh is the best politician India has seen. I can't say the same about him as an economist. — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
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