Economist Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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

If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.

Economists have much to be humble about.

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.

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

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

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

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.

If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.

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

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

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

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

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Is Not An Economist, She Is A Demographer

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 am not and should not be considered an economist.

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

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

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

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.

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

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