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“Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families.”

Humans Long Choices Term Decision Powerful Development Long Term Experts Assets Makers Economist Dormant Contraceptives Decision Makers Reproductive Rights

Author:Melinda Gates

“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.”

Knows Love Lovers Economist

Author:Charles Eisenstein

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

Dangerous Species Satisfied Economist Equations Hubris Potency

Book:Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos

Source: Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos

“When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance”

World Chance Politician Economist Finite Better Future

Author:Phil Harding

“Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better”

Thinking Want Should Pauses Economist Psychologist More Is Better

Author:David Hemenway

“A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot economist [Sir Nicholas Stern]. Environmental head bangers are talking nonsense when they claim that aviation is the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions. Coal-fired and oil-fired power stations are the biggest contributor of carbon but I have yet to hear any fearless eco warriors advocating nuclear power as they drive around in their SUVs to their next protest meeting.”

“Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an “externality.” This absurd label means, in essence: we don’t to keep track of this stuff so let’s pretend it doesn’t exist.”

Mean Stuff Essence Environmental Track Absurd Labels Global Warming Pollution Economist Externalities

Author:Al Gore

“What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.”

Predictions Economist

Author:Robert Kuttner

“I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.”

School Photography Photographer Former Economist

Author:Sebastiao Salgado

“The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.”

Ifs Pain Suffering Nightmare Mainstream Stable Inferiors Economist Status Quo Avoided Taboo Equilibrium Misconception Tolerable Pain And Suffering Eurozone

Author:George Soros

“An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.”

Economics Excellent Torture Sarcasm Sarcastic Rough Economist Surgeons Scalpels

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.”

Firsts Made Matter Happiness Political Wealth Attention Virtue Obstacles Graves Consideration Complaints Economist Disregard

Book:An Outline of the Science of Political Economy

Source: An Outline of the Science of Political Economy

“That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.”

Science Lost Interest Subjects Raised Intense Appeals Abstract One Time Economist Sociology Prominent

Author:George Stigler

“Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you'll have when you're 80. You expect them to give good advice and fix problems.”

Thinking Giving Problem Able Walks Advice Serious Teeth Traps Economist Good Advice Dentist Forecasts

Author:Tim Harford

“The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.”

“Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself.”

Men Humans Political Next Wealth Existence Conditions Materials Source Labour Prime Economist Human Existence Supplies

Book:Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

Source: Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

“A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.”

People Language Opinion Citizens Fellows Fifty Native Instruction Can Not Economist Physicist Swedish Native Language

Author:George Stigler

“All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.”

Two Exception Tall Economist Milton Kenneth

Author:George Stigler

“If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?"”

Ifs Looks Study Horse Economist

Author:Ronald Coase

“Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.”

Has Beens Effort Thousand Ten Percent Thanks Adam Economist Salary Folds Tariffs

Author:Milton Friedman

“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.”

Politician Strikes Knees Economist Looking Forward

Author:Todd Rokita

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

Bits Fields Scientist Fewer Economist

Author:Christine Lagarde

“Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.”

Way Media Involved Cost Despite Secure Economist Exposure Salary Employing Stockbrokers

Author:Paul Ormerod

“But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts.”

Wells Individual Nations Wealth Moral Theory Understood Philosopher Sentiments Adam Economist Wealth Of Nations

Author:Paul Ormerod

“U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.”

Century Taxes Concepts Agency Internals Economist Revenue 19th Century

Author:Robert Breault

“We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of thinking about the economy is to imagine it as a living organism.”

Thinking Way Needs Economy Imagine Concepts Machines Notion Helpful Abandon Organisms Economist Way Of Thinking Equilibrium Living Organisms

Author:Paul Ormerod

“Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge, liberal and conservative, Austrian and Keynesian-both sides share an essential economic vision. They see their discipline as successful insofar as it eliminates surprise-insofar, that is, as the inexorable workings of the machine override the initiatives of the human actors.”

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

Challenges Perception Economist

Author:Mark Zandi

“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.”

Years Body America Hair Mass Years Ago Teeth Economist Sexiest

Author:Mark Zandi

“Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.”

Thinking Wells Whole Colleagues Economist Scholarship

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).”

Next Economics Occasions Economist Diminish Predicting Certitude Predicting The Future

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.”

Economist

Author:Nelson DeMille

“If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.”

Ifs Today Money Doctors Suits Economist Malpractice

Book:The Unconscious Civilization

Source: The Unconscious Civilization

“I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.”

Way Wells Facts Imagination Behinds Capitalism Critics Including Suspects Assets Crucial Economist Undertakings Lag Ruthlessness Inventiveness

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.”

Strong Party Standards Gold England Conservative Britain Labour Very Strong Economist Consensus Labour Party Conservative Party Gold Standard Civil Service

Author:Ed Balls

“No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.”

People Knows Might Lying Speak Opinion Football Economics Mess Contrast Economist Validity

Author:Vicente del Bosque

“Over the last decade, - economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.”

Years Two Lasts Share Economic Events Policy Changed Decades Two Years Broads Splits Economist Consensus Recessions Economic Policy Great Recession

Author:Gavyn Davies

“It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.”

World Said Important Life Is Evil Economy Our Lives Aspect Roots Analysis Our Society Priests Economist Consensus

Author:David Graeber

“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.”

Shows Business Principles Economist Accord

Book:Economic philosophy

Source: Economic philosophy

“Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.”

Stills Given Trade Dollars Rate Uncertainty Volume Sensitivity Economist Deficit Reduction Imports

Author:Martin Feldstein

“Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.”

Years Kind Today Pay Cost Years Ago Argument Thirty Minors Economist Inflation Reducing Thirty Years Inconvenience

Author:Martin Feldstein

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