Economist Quotes - Page 3

The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

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

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

Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of that. And when they say, "Throw out economists, we don't trust economists anymore," you can totally understand why.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

I'm not going to put my lot in with economists, because I know if we get it right, if we actually did it right, if we had a president who used all the tools of the presidency, we would design it in such a way that it would be implemented effectively.

It's usually much easier for people with professional skills to find work for themselves or even possibly to continue with their old employer, but on a part-time basis. Some labor economists predict that in about five years there will be a labor shortage in the United States and that demand for retirees to work part-time will grow naturally. I don't know if that's true or just wishful predicting.

When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

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

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

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.