'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is… — Robert Lucas, Jr Copy Share Image
Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily… — David Hemenway Copy Share Image
At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power. — Sarah Steelman Copy Share Image
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development. — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
An American economist of two generations ago, H. J. Davenport, who was the best friend Thorstein Veblen ever had (Veblen actually lived… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
If a magazine proudly labels itself 'The Economist,' you would expect that publication to understand the economic burdens of today's youth. But… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Economics is really about two stories. One is the story of the old economist and younger economist walking down the street, and… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied… — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage. — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists. — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
