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I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we see… — Stephen Harper
What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? Â What I tried to leave my students with is the view… — Lawrence Summers
Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try… — Steve Keen
Economics is too important to leave to the economists. — Steve Keen
Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology. — Carl Safina
I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research.… — Milton Friedman
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure… — Robert J. Shiller
The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of… — Henry Hazlitt
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or… — Thomas Piketty
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty
Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop. — Herbert Stein
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a… — Petr Skrabanek
Economists have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the "free market." It does not describe any part of reality, at any place or time.… — Edward S. Herman
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing. — Peter Lynch
The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to… — John T. Flynn
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of… — Douglass North
Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I… — Paul Krugman
These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the free market is… — Paul Krugman
I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father… — Unknown Author
The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and… — Kurt Bills
Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened my eyes to… — Kurt Bills
Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this.… — Albert Einstein
The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called… — George Bernard Shaw
What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years.… — Paul Tough
Joel Waldfogel is one of the smartest and funniest economists on the planet. I think of him every time I start to unwrap a present.… — Unknown Author

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