Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything. — Edward Abbey 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
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
Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Economists have the same occupational hazard as baseball managers and football coaches: Every person on the street knows their job better than… — Kevin Hassett Copy Share Image
“I think you have to be a mathematician to appreciate how full of shit economists are, how astrological their equations are.” — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it… — Adam Davidson 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
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
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
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
Of all the thankless jobs that economists set for themselves when it comes to educating people about economics, the notion that society… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
A study by Treasury economists estimated that a country with a tax rate one percentage point lower than another country's attracts 3… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists… — Nouriel Roubini 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
Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can… — Merton Miller 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
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
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
Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
Most economists use 'fixed' and 'pegged' as interchangeable or nearly interchangeable terms for exchange rates. — Steve Hanke Copy Share Image
When we speak of institutions, economists mean more than just organizations. We mean conventions, even rules, about how things are done. — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
When the Internet first appeared, this heated debate developed among economists. One side said the Internet will make it easier for companies… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
Academic economists have consistently discredited themselves by wrongly warning against the policies of President Trump. — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
As a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists. Others interested in helping… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
