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Economists often get the market wrong.
People confuse economists and economic policy.
Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods.
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong.
When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.
I don't think we should run government based on economists' predictions.
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
More than any other issue, economists have kind of been boosters for trade.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.
The sad truth is that many behavioral economists know very little about psychology.
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
I think we labor economists like to think of ourselves as being closer to the people.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.
I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
I think behavioral economists don't have any more of an explanation about the rise of Trump than anyone else.
Most economists use 'fixed' and 'pegged' as interchangeable or nearly interchangeable terms for exchange rates.
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.
Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.
Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.
Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.
A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.
Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.
When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.
If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in their company.
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.
When we speak of institutions, economists mean more than just organizations. We mean conventions, even rules, about how things are done.
Instead of a universal basic income, we could have a basic income guarantee. Or, as economists prefer to call it, a negative income tax.
Mr. Trump has said he strongly supports immediate expensing of capital expenditures, which many economists agree would encourage growth.
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.
Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.
The supply price and the demand price should be roughly the same. You're not supposed to have two different prices. According to economists.