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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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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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We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.


Cornel West


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The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.


James Buchan


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


John Kenneth Galbraith


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I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.


Mario Monti


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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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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 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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