#economists

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#college #college education #dollars #economists #education

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

#economists #workplace #business

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#bad thing #economists #end #laid #thing

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#conclusion #economists #end #laid #never

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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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

#concerned #economic #economists #joseph #know

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

— Rupert Murdoch

#economist #economists #good #i #know

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

#believe #compete #economists #freight #highways

I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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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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