Quotes About Economist

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.

Thus, in addition to his double life as a spy, Defoe also led a dounle life as an economist- without realizing it, he created the central character in free market economics in his fictional work, umyet his own economic analysis clearly illustrated the limits of free market and free trade.

'Freakonomics' began with a 'N.Y. Times Magazine' profile I wrote about Steve Levitt. I was working on a book about 'the psychology of money,' and since Levitt's an economist, my editor thought I'd be the guy to write about him. Fact is that Levitt has almost no interest in either psychology or money.

Someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic, now commonly applied to economists Imagine

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.

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

The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to make sense of the data, the more useful his findings will be.

Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

Anyone who thinks you can have infinite growth on a finite planet is either a madman or an economist. —Kenneth Boulding

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.

I am an economist, not an astrologer.

The Economist dijo que se trataba de un giro «xenófobo».

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

As George Loewenstein, an economist at Carnegie Mellon, points out, "There is little evidence beyond fallible introspection supporting the standard assumption of complete volitional control of behavior.

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.