Economics Quote by Neil Macdonald

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

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

— Daniel Kahneman

The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground,

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes

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

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

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

— William Gilmore Simms

Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

— Simon Kuznets

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

— Ivan Illich