Quotes of: Economists Keyword

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

Ben Stein

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

Rupert Murdoch

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.

Tim Harford

No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.

Vicente del Bosque

Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

[Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries

Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life

I never understand why 'economist makes forecast' is ever a headline. Whether the economist in question is from the International Monetary Fund, a City forecasting group or the Treasury - a forecast is still not news.

Tim Harford

De todos los tópicos acerca de la política, existe uno que se defiende con más fuerza que el resto: el dinero compra elecciones.

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models.

Steve Keen

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you'll have when you're 80. You expect them to give good advi...

Tim Harford

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt fr...

John Maynard Keynes

An essential pedagogic step here is to relegate the teaching of mathematical methods in economics to mathematics departments. Any mathematical training in economics, if it occurs at all, should come after students have at the very least completed cou...

Adbusters #84 Pop Nihilism

In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft from all over the world, and we've hired, for instance, in that group, a good number of Chinese economists - highly qualified, ...

Christine Lagarde

I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economis...

Ha-Joon Chang

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet...

David Graeber

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

Suraj Sharma

The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse fl...

An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies

The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit of this task the economist incurs the deadly enmity of all mountebanks and charlatans...

Economic Freedom and Interventionism

'The Economist' is a biased organization.

Ali Babacan

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Will Rogers