Concern Quote by Dennis Holme Robertson

Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

— William Easterly

We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken…

— Andre Glucksmann

My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows, these are…

— Margaret Thatcher

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

— Lewis Thompson Preston

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

— Stephen Covey

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of…

— Janet Holmes a Court

When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are…

— Michael Hudson

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

— Emily Oster

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to…

— Robert Gilpin

There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world…

— 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…

— Barry Ritholtz

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

— Ivan Illich