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• I think that whether you’re on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

  Peter Blair Henry

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  Tags in Economist, Analyst

• I think you’ve got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

  Thomas J. Sargent

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  Tags in High School, Economist

• If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.

  W.Daniel Hillis

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Internet, Economist

• The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

  Ben Shalom Bernanke

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  Tags in Economist

• 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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  Tags in Swedish, Physicist, Economist

• I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn’t strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

  Todd Rokita

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Learning, Economist

• 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.

  Pauline Hanson

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  Tags in World, Economist

• The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

  Jacques Delors

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Economist, Prevents, Sort, Collective, Growth

• I don’t imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I’m not an economist therefore I can’t take decisions on matters of the economy; I’m not a soldier I can’t take decisions on matters of defence; I’m not an educationist so I can’t take decisions about education.

  Thabo Mbeki

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  Tags in Economist, Soldier, Matters

• For economist the real world is often a special case.

  Edgar R. Fiedler

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  Tags in Economist

• The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

  Eric Alterman

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  Tags in Economist, Magazine

• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  Ed Balls

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Economist, Consensus, Gold, Party

• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

  Walter Bagehot

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  Tags in Economist, Gentleman, Secret

• Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.

  Thomas Carlyle

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• An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

  Will Rogers

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  Tags in Economist, Anybody, Liable, Good, Guess, Else

• An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.

  Laurence J. Peter

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  Tags in Predicted, Expert, Economist, Why, Yesterday, Happen, Things, Today, Tomorrow, Will, Know