Quotes Tagged With :economists

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the....

They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater....

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen....

...If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic....

In my experience, economists rarely believe passionately in, or care passionately for, the free market.....

...some student asked if he [Larry Summers] didn’t have essentially the same relationship with Bob....

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

He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them....

Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden....

The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history.