Best 72 quotes in «economist quotes» category

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An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

When an economist attempts to prove that it is "irrational" to vote in national elections (because the effort expended outweighs the likely benefit to the individual voter), they use the term because they do not wish to say "irrational for actors for whom civic participation, political ideals, of the common good are not values in themselves, but who view public affairs only in terms of personal advantage.

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

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

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

Economists have much to be humble about.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.

During my three years as chief economist of the World Bank, labor market issues were looked at through the lens of neoclassical economics. A standard message was to increase labor market flexibility. The not-so-subtle subtext was to lower wages and lay off unneeded workers.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

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

If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.

If I know what to spec, and I can measure it, and there are no unpredictable interdependencies between what you do and what I must do in response, then an economist would say that is sufficient information for a market to emerge between you and me.

If your employer pays your health insurance, that's not counted as income to you. And any economist would say that's your income, because they'd pay a higher wage if they didn't take it. That's a huge loss to the Treasury.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.

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

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people.

It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.

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

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand...

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

Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.

The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.