Blow Quote by Rebecca West

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

— William Nordhaus

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

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

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

— Edward C. Prescott

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is…

— Thomas Sowell

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

Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong.

— Abhijit Banerjee

Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much.

— Paul Krugman