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- Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task,…
- Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common…
- Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in…
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- Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the… — Michael Bloomberg
- Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors. — James Buchan
- But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished… — Edmund Burke
- Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal… — Noam Chomsky
- Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. — Paulo Coelho
- Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades.… — Barack Obama
- This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too… — John Maynard Keynes
- He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises
- Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders… — Kenneth E. Boulding
- In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen… — Alfred Adler
- In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes… — Ann Coulter
- Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. — Harry S. Truman