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“The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.”

Said Political Economy Modern Crisis West Financial Ideology Frightened Pollution They Said Economist Prevailing Financial Crisis Political Economy

Author:James Buchan

“A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.”

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Author:Christina Romer

“Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.”

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Author:Alan Thein Durning

“Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the worlds resources will be negotiated.”

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Author:Ottmar Edenhofer

“Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t sustainable in the face of mass unemployment, but as memories of the Depression faded, economists fell back in love with the old, idealized vision of an economy in which rational individuals interact in perfect markets.”

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Author:Paul Krugman

“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka.”

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Author:David Letterman

“When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never able to get any of the economists in state government to give him the help his plan deserves.”

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Author:Jerry Brown

“Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.”

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Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.”

“Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.”

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Author:Rebecca M. Blank

“Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.”

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Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.”

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Author:Robert Orben

“An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.”

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Author:Edward Glaeser

“most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.”

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Author:Alice Rivlin

“Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another.”

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Author:Bernard Baruch

“Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.”

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Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.”

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Author:Donald Evans

“Economists may not know how to run the economy, but they know how to create shortages or gluts simply by regulating prices below the market, or artificially supporting them from above.”

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Author:Milton Friedman