#economists

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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Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa. ↗

— William Foege

#beginning #diseases #economists #going #good

It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

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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

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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing. ↗

— Peter Lynch

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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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