It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The main thing that you learn in grad school, or should learn, is how to think like an economist. The rest is… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
But there is no equality of opportunity under existing laws and customs. In the race for wealth, which the economist seems as… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
“In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to… — Eugene Linden Copy Share Image
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
If you ask any economist, they'll tell you all the mortgage interest deduction does is raise the price of the house. So… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
Economists may not know much. But we know one thing very well: how to produce surpluses and shortages. Do you want a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What would've happened, do you think, had the government not intervened in October 2008? The catastrophe to the economy would've been absolutely… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
We need economic policies in the U.S. that produce jobs, first of all, but good jobs, second of all. Believe it or… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still… — Arthur Cecil Pigou Copy Share Image
The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me… — Todd Rokita Copy Share Image
If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Given the large uncertainties at each major step of the case for reliance on a carbon tax, economists should reconsider their current… — Robert P. Murphy Copy Share Image
“Kenneth Boulding’s bon mot, ‘To believe that the economy can grow forever in a finite world, you have to be a madman… — Wolfgang Sachs Copy Share Image
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Shopping for an annuity with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake can be daunting, even for an economist. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
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