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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before. — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens. — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better — David Hemenway Copy Share Image
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
Economics really pervert every possible good thing that comes, whether it's food or a cure or a new technological advancement; anything like that is… — Renee Elise Goldsberry Copy Share Image
Trade has helped the economy grow. Simultaneously, a sizable number of Americans haven't shared in that bounty, and if we don't pay attention to… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
The average worker in 2015 wanting to attain the average living standard in 1915 could do so by working just 17 weeks a year,… — David Autor Copy Share Image
I did software development for a while, and I also spent several years directing a nonprofit in San Francisco that did computer education for… — David Autor Copy Share Image
China's rise is really a kind of a world historical event. This is the largest country in the world. It has caused a wholesale… — David Autor Copy Share Image
Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection. — David Autor Copy Share Image
The end of the 'tech bubble' in the year 2000 is, of course, widely recognized, as the NASDAQ stock index erased three-quarters of its… — David Autor Copy Share Image
The U.S. tends to export high-tech goods because we have strong comparative advantage there, and we tend to import labor-intensive and less skill-intensive goods… — David Autor Copy Share Image
If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again. — David Autor Copy Share
I'm not yet convinced that we will face an unemployment problem created by AI. There will certainly be some occupations eliminated - drivers of… — David Autor Copy Share Image
Work is what structures adults' lives: it gives us purpose, focus, a set of responsibilities, and an identity. So when people are not participating… — David Autor Copy Share Image
Economists have understood since the Victorian era that the main benefits of trade come from comparative advantage: the idea that people can specialize in… — David Autor Copy Share Image
Here's a startling fact: in the 45 years since the introduction of the automated teller machine, those vending machines that dispense cash, the number… — David Autor Copy Share Image
Workers and jobs are naturally heterogeneous, and the quality of their interaction when paired is difficult to forecast. — David Autor Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart,… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
I think behavioral economists don't have any more of an explanation about the rise of Trump than anyone else. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
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… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Academic economists have consistently discredited themselves by wrongly warning against the policies of President Trump. — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
A study by Treasury economists estimated that a country with a tax rate one percentage point lower than another country's attracts 3 percent more… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
“Most economists are accustomed to treating companies as idyllic places where everyone is devoted to a common goal: making as much money as possible. In the real world, that’s not how things work at all. Companies aren’t big happy families where everyone plays together nicely. Rather, most workplaces are made up of fiefdoms where executives compete for power and credit,… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share
