Believe Quote by William Gilmore Simms

“and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to…

— Anonymous

I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a…

— Merton Miller

Economists give their predictions to a digit after the decimal point to show that they have a sense of humor.

— Anonymous

There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world…

— Thomas Piketty

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to…

— Robert Gilpin

When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are…

— Michael Hudson

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant…

— Mario Monti

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

— Emily Oster

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 must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

— Simon Kuznets

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

— Ivan Illich

As economists bandy about terms like 'recapitalization,' 'credit lines,' and 'liquidity,' families are facing brutal cuts to their social services and welfare payments, losing…

— Sharan Burrow