If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would. — Dennis Holme Robertson Copy Share Image
Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists. — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.. — Edgar Fiedler 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
Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have… — Benoit Mandelbrot 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
The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at… — Thomas Piketty 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
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
“They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“there is enormous value in what economists call social capital. It’s a professor’s term, but the concept is pretty simple: The networks… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine,… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
In the 1940s, economics started getting highly mathematical. It was basically because economists weren't smart enough to write down models of real… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
“All the structural problems that economists had warned about coalesced after 1973–74 to jolt American life. These included sagging productivity, declining competitiveness… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“[T]he ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The economists exploded the old tenets: that it is unfair and unjust to outdo a competitor by producing better and cheaper goods;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Economics ought to be a magpie discipline, taking in philosophy, history and politics. But heterodox approaches have long since been banished from… — Aditya Chakrabortty Copy Share Image
“and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was… — Eric J. Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“Most economists are accustomed to treating companies as idyllic places where everyone is devoted to a common goal: making as much money… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
People today don't become economists to make the world a better place. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
I think we labor economists like to think of ourselves as being closer to the people. — David Autor Copy Share Image
If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men. — Kirk Kerkorian Copy Share Image
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