Economists Quotes
203 quotes by 146 authors
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Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
— James Buchan
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
— Edmund Burke
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
— Noam Chomsky
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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
— Paulo Coelho
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Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades. And for good…
— Barack Obama
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless…
— John Maynard Keynes
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He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions,…
— Alfred Adler
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In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the…
— Ann Coulter
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Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
— Harry S. Truman
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Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a…
— Michael Kinsley
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...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of the more laborious…
— Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod
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In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.
— Dennis Holme Robertson
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There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated by…
— Martin Shubik
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When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.
— Thomas J. Sargent
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If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.
— Kirk Kerkorian
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The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived…
— Joan Robinson
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