Quotes About Economist

With the passing of Milton Friedman on November 16, 2006, we lost one of the great champions of free markets.

Writing in 1921, the University of Chicago economist Frank Knight uttered strange words for a man of his profession: "There is much question as to how far the world is intelligible at all. . . . It is only in the very special and crucial cases that anything like a mathematical study can be made.

Shoji Ito was an Indophile like no other Japanese economist I have known. During the 1990s, he would frequently visit India to keep pace with the changes in the economy. We would always meet and have long conversations about India, Japan, and the world. Unfortunately, Ito-san died early.

If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.

I'm an economist. I'm not a political servant.

'The Economist' is a biased organization.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

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

The wide confidence interval is a confession of ignorance, which is not socially acceptable for someone who is paid to be knowledgeable in financial matters. Even if they knew how little they know, the executives would be penalized for admitting it. President Truman famously asked for a "one-armed economist" who would take a clear stand; he was sick and tired of economists who kept saying, "On the other hand…

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

There's nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.

Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Nada debería tener tanto un economista como el aplauso.

I'm an economist, not a political scientist.

Manmohan Singh is the best politician India has seen. I can't say the same about him as an economist.

I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.

In a remarkable research finding, Yasheng Huang, an MIT economist, established that Shanghai had the lowest number of private businesses relative to the city's size and its number of households in 2004, bar two other places in China. Only Beijing and Tibet, where government and the military are, respectively, the main businesses, had lower shares of private commerce.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

Mr. Friedman will convince you about anything he want, even if that's ridiculous. he was a really smart economist

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.