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Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various… — Tyler Cowen
Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This… — Tyler Cowen
Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come… — Sendhil Mullainathan
What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me… — Leonor Varela
To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies to… — Alex Berenson
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. — Tim Harford
We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a thousand YouTube clips. — Tom Chatfield
Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods… — Thomas Piketty
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to… — Barry Ritholtz
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum… — Ha-Joon Chang
Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible… — Ha-Joon Chang
Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make… — Ha-Joon Chang
Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused. — Ha-Joon Chang
Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to… — Ha-Joon Chang
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself.… — Ha-Joon Chang
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That… — Kenneth Baker
I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and… — Pauline Hanson
When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95%… — Donald Evans
Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to… — Malcolm Fraser
I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to… — Mario Monti
To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists… — Mark Helprin
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. — Edmund Burke
I disagree with excluding politicians, economists or any professionals from having an opinion or idea in Sharia, I equally disagree with all those with little… — Abbakhuwa
I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score… — Merton Miller
Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions — Unknown Author

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