Cages Quote by Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th…

— Adam Davidson

I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything big, experimental,…

— John Lanchester

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When most people think of economists, they think of macro-economists. Macro-economists try to describe or - even harder - predict the movements of a…

— Stephen J. Dubner

There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible…

— Bryan Caplan

Some economists seem to think that only a credentialed economist has the right to be utterly wrong about an issue of economics. Their contempt…

— Neil Macdonald

“Joy is an abundant currency in God's Kingdom”

— Pastor Rod W. Larkins

God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie,…

— Mark Twain

Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.

— Paul Krugman

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

— Peter Drucker

My mother, when she was younger, worked at Filene's in Boston. And she was chief cashier. And I always wondered why she never went…

— Nat Hentoff