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> [The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/the-fear-among-economists-across-the-political-spectrum-that-was-was/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [ “\[T\]he ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/t-he-ideas-of-economists-and-political-philosophers-both-when-they/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Taking the average of surveys on academic economists’ political views, we find that Democrat economists outnumber their Republican colleagues by almost three…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-lott-jr/taking-the-average-of-surveys-on-academic-economists-political-views/)

[John R. Lott Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-lott-jr/)

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> [The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-maynard-keynes/the-ideas-of-economists-and-political-philosophers-both-when-they-are/)

[John Maynard Keynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-maynard-keynes/)

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> [“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-maynard-keynes/the-ideas-of-economists-and-political-philosophers-both-when-they-are-2/)

[John Maynard Keynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-maynard-keynes/)

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> [“few economists even mention immigration control as one of those nasty regulations hampering the workings of the free labour market. Hardly any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/few-economists-even-mention-immigration-control-as-one-of-those-nasty/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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