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An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.: Alfred A. Knopf
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.: Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?: Kelvin Throop III
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.: Lester Brown, Fortune Brainstorm Conference, 2006
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.: Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)


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