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“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”

“Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.”

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Book:Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text

Source: Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text

“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

“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

“No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.”

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Author:Walter Bagehot

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

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Book:Essays in persuasion

Source: Essays in persuasion