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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. ↗

— George Stigler

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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. ↗

— George Stigler

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The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. ↗

— George Stigler

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Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary. ↗

— David Suzuki

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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

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There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. ↗

— Herbert Marshall

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I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

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But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

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My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table. ↗

— Seth Gordon

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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

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