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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. — Margaret Thatcher
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to… — Bill Vaughan
We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're… — Cornel West
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful… — Vivienne Westwood
Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market… — Janet Yellen
There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go… — Muhammad Yunus
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage. — Daniel Gilbert
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not… — Muhammad Yunus
Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity. — Mary E. Pearson
Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by… — Malcolm Gladwell
We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example,… — Milton Friedman
There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that. — Tim Harford
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed,… — John Maynard Keynes
Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change… — Malcolm Forbes
When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them. — Herbert V. Prochnow
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the… — Francis Fukuyama
Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a… — Adam Davidson
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. — Emily Oster
Many economists are great believers in the idea that everything in nature is competitive and that we should set up a society which is competitive… — Frans de Waal
Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation… — Adam Davidson
The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious,… — Adam Davidson
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education. — Derek Bok
Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as… — Derek Bok
Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run. — Ian Frazier
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the… — Anne Fortier

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