#economist

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?' ↗

— Andrew Lo

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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors. ↗

— James Buchan

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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. ↗

— Nate Silver

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I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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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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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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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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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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