Earl Wilson Quote by Eric Siegel

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

— Earl Wilson

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

— Laurence J. Peter

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

— Robert Kuttner

“those who are very good at predicting the past will think of themselves as good at predicting the future,”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Our knowledge does not help us to forecast the future, but it makes us more certain that our guesses are the right ones. In…

— Chris Carter

“There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.”

— Peter Boettke

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

— William Easterly

“It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.” —Alan Kay”

— Brad Stone

“Nothing can be predicted. Nobody can give a reason why something happened in this way and not in another. Stronger than all predictions are…

— Sten Nadolny

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.

— Tim Harford

“What’s the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything? Some complex systems, such as the weather, are oblivious to our predictions. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr