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

— Paulo Coelho

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Most economists are accustomed to treating companies as idyllic places where everyone is devoted to a common goal: making as much money as possible. In the real world, that’s not how things work at all. Companies aren’t big happy families where everyone plays together nicely. Rather, most workplaces are made up of fiefdoms where executives compete for power and credit, often in hidden skirmishes that make their own performances appear superior and their rivals’ seem worse. Divisions compete for resources and sabotage each other to steal glory. Bosses pit their subordinates against one another so that no one can mount a coup. Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines – habits – that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done. ↗

— Charles Duhigg

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

— Herbert Prochnow

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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

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Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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