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• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
• Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you… — Michael Bloomberg
• Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors. — James Buchan
• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe… — Edmund Burke
• You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a… — David Cameron
• Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. — Thomas Carlyle
• Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed… — Noam Chomsky
• Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. — Paulo Coelho
• The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end… — Eric Alterman
• Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next… — Barack Obama
• This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set… — John Maynard Keynes
• He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first… — Ludwig von Mises

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