Economists Quotes

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

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.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn`t be a bad thing.

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

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again.

When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.

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.

When better business decisions are made, economists won`t make them.

Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

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

Some economists estimate that for every one-cent increase in the price of gas, spending in other areas will decline by one billion dollars. Wal-Mart estimates that higher gasoline prices take away $7 per week from an average family budget.

The proposal would limit your ability to get any tax break for the mortgage interest you pay. Economists are estimating that this would drop house values by 15 to 20 percent.

Economists are pessimists: they`ve predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions

Ask five economists and you`ll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

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

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for 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.