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The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all… — Ludwig von Mises
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather than… — Robert J. Samuelson
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists… — Henry Hazlitt
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It is… — Henry Hazlitt
It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing… — Murray Rothbard
The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated — Satish Kumar
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists… — James R Newman
The economists will have to revise their theories of value. — Albert Einstein
The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground, — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything. — Edward Abbey
What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most. — Edward Abbey
Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was… — Thomas Nixon Carver
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.. — Edgar Fiedler
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols. — Unknown Author
But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to… — Alexi Giannoulias
Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor. — Peter Drucker
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… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of… — Daniel Gilbert
One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again… — John Fund
There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible views.… — Bryan Caplan
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. — Edgar Fiedler
Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists ‘explaining,’ like… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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