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Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge,… — George Gilder
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists… — James Buchan
The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians… — Garrison Keillor
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than… — Christina Romer
I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on… — Mark Skousen
How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly,… — Nicholas Stern
Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that. — Thomas Sowell
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of… — Rowan Williams
If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits. — John Ralston Saul
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own… — Zygmunt Bauman
No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which… — Vicente del Bosque
Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled… — Gavyn Davies
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it… — David Graeber
It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with… — Joan Robinson
Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how… — Martin Feldstein
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a… — Martin Feldstein
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table. — Seth Gordon
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. — Vladimir Lenin
This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look… — Vladimir Lenin
Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This… — Emily Oster
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air… — Jeff Goodell
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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