Cost Quote by Paul Ormerod

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

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

— Adam Davidson

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.

— Kirk Kerkorian

In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the…

— Michael Hudson

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to…

— David Cameron

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of the more…

— Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont…

— Thomas Piketty