Best 72 quotes in «economist quotes» category

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

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

Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Mtu anayesema pesa haijampa furaha hana nia ya kusaidia watu.

Toa msaada katika jamii iliyosaidia kukulea ulipokuwa mdogo.

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.

Lo básico es dejar amplio margen para el aprendizaje

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

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

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.

Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

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

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.