More than any other issue, economists have kind of been boosters for trade. — David Autor Copy Share Image
Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
“As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.” — Robert Lane Greene 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
“Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should… — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that many behavioral economists know very little about psychology. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor. — William Gilmore Simms 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
Economists give their predictions to a digit after the decimal point to show that they have a sense of humor. — Anonymous 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
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
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
I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is… — Benjamin Graham 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
The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
“The mathematical economists have commonly been mathematicians first and economists afterward, disposed to oversimplify the data and underestimate the divergence between their… — Frank H. Knight Copy Share Image
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences… — Mark Blaug 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 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
But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down… — Alexi Giannoulias Copy Share Image
How should the best parts of psychology and economics interrelate in an enlightened economist's mind?... I think that these behavioral economics...or economists… — Charlie Munger 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
The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater,… — George Gilder 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
“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
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
Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
