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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people.
I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.
Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something.
Manmohan Singh is the best politician India has seen. I can't say the same about him as an economist.
I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?
What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'
When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.
One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.
I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
Shopping for an annuity with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake can be daunting, even for an economist.
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.
I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.
I was an economist out of the National University of Mexico, where you lived the realities of Mexico all the time.
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
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.
The main thing that you learn in grad school, or should learn, is how to think like an economist. The rest is just math.
An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.
There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.
Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.
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.
They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.
As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
The subsidy for employer-sponsored coverage has tethered health care to employment in a way that virtually no economist endorses.
Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
Although the world has changed dramatically since 1843, we believe that the values that guide 'The Economist' are as relevant as ever.
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.
Stiglitz is not a Left economist. Indeed, it would be difficult to find a more authentic insider and establishment figure than Stiglitz.
Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.