Biased Quote by Ali Babacan

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

— William Nordhaus

An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

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

An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it

— Anonymous

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

— Robert Menzies

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

— Edward C. Prescott

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of…

— Michael Kinsley

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

— Robert Kuttner

There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than…

— Adam Davidson

An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.

— Robert Orben