Quotes About Economist

I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'

I never understand why 'economist makes forecast' is ever a headline. Whether the economist in question is from the International Monetary Fund, a City forecasting group or the Treasury - a forecast is still not news.

As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.

Ayn Rand described Hayek's book as "pure poison"; Frank Chodorov "thought the program verged on intellectual cowardice"; libertarian economist Walter Block was probably not alone in thinking him only "a weak and conflicted supporter of the market"; and Hans-Hermann Hoppe referred to "Hayek's social-democratic theory of government".

I've got two brothers. One's older - the artist - and then my younger brother is an ecological economist - a farmer.

If a magazine proudly labels itself 'The Economist,' you would expect that publication to understand the economic burdens of today's youth. But when a tone-deaf writer at the magazine tweets an article asking 'Why aren't millennials buying diamonds,' it pretty much sums up how oblivious some can be in matters they're supposed to be experts in.

Classic English liberalism of the sort that 'The Economist' was founded to champion and still espouses is about open societies and free markets.

Milton Friedman. Friedman had a solid MV = PQ doctrine from which he deviated very little all his life. By the way, he's about as smart a guy as you'll meet. He's as persuasive as you hope not to meet.

To allow arcane trade law, which has been negotiated with scant public scrutiny, to have this kind of power over an issue so critical to humanity's future is a special kind of madness. As Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz puts it, "Should you let a group of foolish lawyers, who put together something before they understood these issues, interfere with saving the planet?

Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine.

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.

The late maverick economist Kenneth Boulding perhaps best summed it up when testifying before the U.S. Congress, declaring that "anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

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

The mind of the true economist is a sieve which lets everything fall through except that which is of use to him in the business of his life. He also employs only necessary words, and does only necessary actions, thus vastly minimizing friction and waste of power.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

If you hear a prominent economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word equilibrium , or normal distribution , do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

An economist is someone who is good with numbers but does not have the personality to be an accountant." The tarnished image of

Ryan asked, "Is there any economist in the world who correlates Russia's increased authoritarianism with their increased economic growth?" Helen Glass thought for a moment. "Sure, you can find some who will say just that, but remember, there were economists predicting the fall of capitalism and the rise of world communism, even in the eighties." Jack laughed. "Good point. You can always find an expert to confirm your belief, no matter how ridiculous.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

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

An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women.