Economists Quotes

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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
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 forever. — Edmund Burke
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
Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. — Paulo Coelho
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
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
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
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
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
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
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. — Harry S. Truman
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
...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
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.
If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would. — Dennis Holme Robertson
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
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. — Thomas J. Sargent
If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men. — Kirk Kerkorian
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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