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Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.

Quotes by Tim Harford

Most economists use 'fixed' and 'pegged' as interchangeable or nearly interchangeable terms for exchange rates.

Quotes by Steve Hanke

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

Quotes by Seth Gordon

Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.

Quotes by Richard Thaler

The supply price and the demand price should be roughly the same. You're not supposed to have two different prices. According to economists.

Quotes by Richard Thaler

I think behavioral economists don't have any more of an explanation about the rise of Trump than anyone else.

Quotes by Richard Thaler

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

Quotes by Peter Lynch

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

Quotes by Nate Silver

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.

Quotes by Michael Bloomberg

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

Quotes by Mark Zandi

Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.

Quotes by Malcolm Fraser

The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.

Quotes by Kurt Bills

Entire populations of market strategists, fund managers, and economists are employed to try and intuit for clients which securities to bet on for the best possible return each year - or quarter.

Quotes by Kelly Evans

Economists often get the market wrong.

Quotes by Kapil Sibal

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Quotes by Joseph Stiglitz

The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.

Quotes by John T. Flynn

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

Quotes by John Maynard Keynes

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

I don't think we should run government based on economists' predictions.

Quotes by John Fleming

Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.

Quotes by Janet Yellen

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

Quotes by James Buchan

Mr. Trump has said he strongly supports immediate expensing of capital expenditures, which many economists agree would encourage growth.

Quotes by James B. Stewart

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

Quotes by Herbert V. Prochnow

The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population.

Quotes by Herbert A. Simon

I am often considered almost not a part of the profession of Establishment economists. I am even referred to as a sociologist. And by that, economists usually do not mean anything flattering.

Quotes by Gunnar Myrdal

In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it.

Quotes by George Akerlof

People confuse economists and economic policy.

Quotes by Franco Modigliani

Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods.

Quotes by Eric Maskin

When the Smoot-Hawley bill landed on President Herbert Hoover's desk, more than 1,000 economists urged him to veto it. Tragically, the president ignored their pleas.

Quotes by Elaine Chao

Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.

Quotes by Edmund Phelps

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

Quotes by Edgar Fiedler

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

Quotes by David Suzuki

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

Quotes by Christine Lagarde

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

Quotes by Christina Romer

Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have found is that major rises and falls in prices are actually inevitable.

Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot

Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years.

Quotes by Ben Bernanke

What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.

Quotes by Austan Goolsbee

A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.

Quotes by Alvin E. Roth

To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies to cover their costs and earn a guaranteed profit for their investors. But in a deregulated market, prices should vary with demand and supply.

Quotes by Alex Berenson

Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

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