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
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a… — Tom Chatfield 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
“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
It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology. — Carl Safina 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
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
They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Economists may not know how to run the economy, but they know how to create shortages or gluts simply by regulating prices… — Milton Friedman 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
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very… — Kenneth Baker Copy Share Image
“In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to… — Eugene Linden Copy Share Image
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the… — David Graeber 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
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
“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
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
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
Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. — Edgar Fiedler 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
I think behavioral economists don't have any more of an explanation about the rise of Trump than anyone else. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Instead of a universal basic income, we could have a basic income guarantee. Or, as economists prefer to call it, a negative… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens. — Edward C. Prescott 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 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
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. — Harry S. Truman 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
Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people… — Thomas Sowell 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 sad truth is that many behavioral economists know very little about psychology. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
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