Best 72 quotes in «economist quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.

Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.

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

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

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

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

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.

The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of the toolbag of the economist and one which he can often contribute usefully to other sciences which are occasionally apt to get lost in the trackless exfoliations of purely dynamic systems.

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.

The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.

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

There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.

There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

Have you heard the joke about the chemist, physicist and economist who get wrecked on a desert isle, with a huge supply of canned baked beans as their only food? The chemist says that he can start a fire using the neighbouring palm trees, and calculate the temperature at which a can will explode. The physicist says that she can work out the trajectory of each of the baked beans, so that they can be collected and eaten. The economist says "Hang on guys, you're doing it the hard way. Let's assume we have a can opener.

Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi hupata jeuri ya kusema hivyo kutokana na umaskini wa watu wanaowazunguka.

If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.

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

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