Activity Quote by Robert Heilbroner

“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

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

— William Nordhaus

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

— Edward C. Prescott

An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“[T]he ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— Anonymous

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

An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it

— Anonymous

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

— George Stigler