Quotes with economists

  • Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
  • THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Edgar R. Fiedler Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations… six if one went to Harvard.
    Edgar R. Fiedler
    American economist and politician (1929 - 2003)
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  • Ben Miles Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.
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  • Bill Vaughan Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Edmund Burke I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Maynard Keynes 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
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Benjamin Graham It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
    World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. X, Commodity Unit Stabilization, p. 109
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Benjamin Graham Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
    World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. IX, Commodities, Gold, Credit as Money, p. 100
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • B. W. Powe The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.
    Towards A Canada of Light Letter To Those In power, p. 83
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz 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
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Benjamin Graham THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.
    Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Noam Chomsky Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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