Body Quote by Stephen J. Dubner

For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal…

— Nouriel Roubini

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

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

Some economists seem to think that only a credentialed economist has the right to be utterly wrong about an issue of economics. Their contempt…

— Neil Macdonald

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

— Daniel Kahneman

Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists ‘explaining,’…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

— Peter Drucker

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

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

— Ivan Illich