Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists
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I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
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Try to raise a voice that shall be heard from here to Albany and watch what it is that comes forward to shut off the sound. It is not a German sergeant, nor a Russian officer of the precinct. It is a note from a friend of your fathers offering you a place in his office. This is your warning from the secret police. Why, if any of you young gentlemen have a mind to get heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputation, and a close enemy of most men who wish you well. And what will you get in return? Well, if I must for the benefit of the economists, charge you up with some selfish gain, I will say that you get the satisfaction of having been heard, and that this is the whole possible scope of human ambition.
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Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
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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.
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If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn't reach a conclusion
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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.
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on forecasters.
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Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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