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Economist Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline…
- Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
- The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
- If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put…
- The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
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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 have the… — 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 is extinguished… — Edmund Burke
- You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking… — 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 among liberal… — 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 double issue. — Eric Alterman
- Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades.… — Barack Obama
- This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too… — John Maynard Keynes
- He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises