Economists Quote by Chip Heath

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

— Emily Oster

“According to one Harvard study, more students attended America’s elite universities from the top 1 per cent of income backgrounds than from the bottom…

— Edward Luce

“Researchers at Yale University have shown that educated people are more unshakable in their convictions than anybody.”

— Rutger Bregman

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare…

— Shia LaBeouf

Yale's endowment became a metaphor for the kind of training it offered its graduates, namely, how to exploit the global marketplace, and technology, for…

— Jess Row

Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

— Frances McDormand

As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a…

— Charlie Munger

“One of the main reasons college professors accept a lower paycheck than they could get in private industry is that university life gives them…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“How many people choose a course of study or career based on their parents’ expectations or the possibility of achieving a certain level of…

— Wendy K. Walters

“...no one can safely rely upon the higher intellectual pursuits as a protection from money-anxieties.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as…

— Kenneth Arrow

You could be disqualified for a job [at Harvard] if you were either smart or Jewish or Keynesian. So what chance did this smart,…

— Paul Samuelson