Quotes of: Economists Keyword

There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.

Peter Boettke

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Thomas Carlyle

In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A good accountant is someone who told you yesterday what the economists forcast for tomorrow

Miles Thomas

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Jane Smiley

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

Nathan Myhrvold

Economist should be spelled echonomist, because they all repeat each other.

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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

Nate Silver

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

Michael Moore

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Laurence J. Peter

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Walter Bagehot

When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

Emily Oster

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

Earl Wilson

For economist the real world is often a special case.

Edgar Fiedler

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

Daniel Kahneman

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.

Alan Greenspan

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Joseph Stiglitz

One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materia...

The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Peter Lynch

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

R. Buckminster Fuller