Economist Quotes - Page 8

• I mean, you just go down the line, and with any of these issues, it's about rich people staying rich. And using poverty as a weapon against people. That's what we see every day. And I'm not an economist, so I can't speak to the nuances of it, but just common sense tells me the whole thing is corrupt.

  Conor Oberst

  Mean, People, Common Sense

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Art, Mind, Sensitive

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.90, Penguin UK

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• Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to support what the classical economists called "unproductive activity."

  Michael Hudson

  Support, Today, Financial

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them. So, they're what the classical economist called empty pricing. Prices with no real cost value. What they called rent and fictitious capital. Capital claims on junk mortgage borrowers. The pretense is that all these debts can be paid but it's all fictitious, because everybody knows - at least on Wall Street everybody knows - that many debts can't be paid.

  Michael Hudson

  Wall, Real, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The drilling idea is spherically senseless - it's senseless from whatever point of view you look at it. It'd take 10 years to bring any oil online, and it would probably go to Japan. It sure wouldn't help gasoline prices here. All the economists say gasoline is still too cheap in the United States anyway. So here we're having this huge debate over offshore drilling that is just straightforward nonsense, which won't surprise you.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Japan, Views, Years

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• If I know what to spec, and I can measure it, and there are no unpredictable interdependencies between what you do and what I must do in response, then an economist would say that is sufficient information for a market to emerge between you and me.

  Clayton Christensen

  Information, Between You And Me, Unpredictable

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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

  Thomas J. Sargent

  Estimating, Agendas, Lag

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• Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people.

  Richard Thaler

  People, Longevity, Agree

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• Economists often define their discipline as "the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends." But when resources or money really become scarce, economists call it a crisis and say that it's a question for politicians, not their own department.

  Michael Hudson

  Discipline, Politician, Crisis

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

  Robert Mugabe

  Politician, Storyteller, Knows

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's views [most significantly] is race.

  Michael C Dawson

  Views, Race, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Economics, Scope

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm struck by how very few people outside a rarefied world of true believers understand what you mean when you say human rights - that includes development experts and economists who are very keen to implement the UN Millennium Development Goals. They've told me quite frankly, that they don't know exactly what a human rights approach is.

  Mary Robinson

  Mean, Rights, People

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Thinking, Needs

  "Obama plans ambitious first week, aides say" by Ed Henry, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2009.

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• If you keep tax cuts for the wealthiest, it won't stimulate the economy, but it will add to the deficit. And, really, what we have to be focused on right now is what economists would call the opportunity costs.

  Heather Boushey

  Cutting, Opportunity, Economy

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• If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.

  Richard Harris

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• In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of fashion magazines, out of The Economist, out of Time. I'm making a sketch, but I'm using the existing images that have been put out in the world.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Fashion, Real, Thinking

  "A Fantastic Journey Into the Mind of Collage Artist Wangechi Mutu". Interview with Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. October 12, 2013.

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• I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

  Babe Ruth

  Cheer, Thinking, People

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• The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

  Nate Silver

  Pessimistic, Economy

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• I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

  Vikram Seth

  Writing, Years, Found

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• 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.

  Donald Evans

  Powerful, Thinking, America

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• Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Years, Levels, Care

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Discipline, Want, Debate

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• Given the large uncertainties at each major step of the case for reliance on a carbon tax, economists should reconsider their current support for such a policy.

  Robert P. Murphy

  Support, Steps, Should

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• What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

  Michael Moore

  Order, Asking, Economic

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