Economist Quote by Edward C. Prescott Download Open image “Progess, do not regress.” — Edward C. Prescott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economist
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife — Confucius Copy Share Image
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires. — Livy Copy Share Image
Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy. — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact that what alone can improve their condition s is more… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Multinational companies use their technological know-how in their foreign subsidiaries, so reciprocal multinational relationships are key - they lead to a vested interest in… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
Of all the thankless jobs that economists set for themselves when it comes to educating people about economics, the notion that society is better… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
Despite the impression created by some economic pundits, the U.S. economy is not a delicate little machine that needs to be fine-tuned with exact… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
In the Great Depression, employment was not low because investment was low. Employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial policies… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
Random distributions are not good things, because people are risk-averse, and this risk adversely affects their welfare. If you get too much price uncertainty,… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious. — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed. — Edward C. Prescott 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
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels 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
However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
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