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

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors. — Barry Ritholtz

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. — Edmund Burke

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. — Joan Robinson

Economists have much to be humble about. — Paul Samuelson

Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD. — Paul Krugman

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. — Paul Krugman

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols. — Al Nichol

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

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions. — Robert Menzies

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels

The job of economic theorists is to prove theorems. The job of policy economists is to figure out which theorems to apply. — N. Gregory Mankiw

When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. — Thomas J. Sargent

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything. — Edward Abbey

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. — George Bernard Shaw

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology. — Nathan Myhrvold

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits. — John Ralston Saul

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor. — Peter Drucker

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree. — Adam Davidson

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

Beware of economists who hide assumptions. — Anat R. Admati

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

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them. — Herbert V. Prochnow

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists. — Joan Robinson

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman

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

Economics is too important to leave to the economists. — Steve Keen

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess? — Thomas Sowell

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. — George Stigler

When economists get it right, the world gets better. — Dani Rodrik

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of days revolution — Owen H. Lewis

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy. — Adam Davidson

People dreaming ,economists steals their dreams and politicians kills it — Mohammed Sekouty

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. — Emily Oster

Smarter people tend to think more like economists — Steven Pinker

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