#economists

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

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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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When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them. ↗

— Herbert Prochnow

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

— Joseph Stiglitz

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

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With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

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You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, 'It could have been much better.' ↗

— Jamie Dimon

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The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution. ↗

— John T. Flynn

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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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