Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview… — Tyler Cowen 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
“We both approach the world as economists, and as economists resigned to - and sometimes even reveling in - the character defect… — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
'Fun money' is another thing that makes no sense to traditional economists. Because there's just money; there's no 'fun money.' It's all… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry,… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Mr. Trump has said he strongly supports immediate expensing of capital expenditures, which many economists agree would encourage growth. — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Entire populations of market strategists, fund managers, and economists are employed to try and intuit for clients which securities to bet on… — Kelly Evans Copy Share Image
Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care,… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Researchers may like to think that, given all the facts, we make rational choices. Ask economists how that assumption works out for… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree. — Adam Davidson 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
If there is one thing that most economists agree about in the realm of tax policy, it is that it's best to… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
More than any other issue, economists have kind of been boosters for trade. — David Autor Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that many behavioral economists know very little about psychology. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
