Economist Quote by Kenneth Boulding

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist

— David Attenborough

I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.

— Mark McKinnon

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

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

— Emily Oster

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

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

— Friedrich Engels

Stiglitz is not a Left economist. Indeed, it would be difficult to find a more authentic insider and establishment figure than Stiglitz.

— Prashant Bhushan

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

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

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

— Ivan Illich

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

“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