#economist

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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The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts .... He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher -- in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular, in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man's nature or his institutions must be entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood, as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

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

— Herbert Prochnow

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The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

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For economist the real world is often a special case. ↗

— Edgar R. Fiedler

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Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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

— Joseph Stiglitz

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Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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