Economist Quote by Robert Kuttner Download Open image “What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.” — Robert Kuttner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economist Inspirational Love Predictions
An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be. — William Nordhaus Copy Share Image
An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered a high… — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's trade disputes… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
We are already well down the road toward a managed-trade regime. It would be far better to acknowledge that reality, and seek a set… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences,… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict is less… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
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