 | "An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible."
- Alfred A. Knopf
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| "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity."
- Chester Bowles
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| "If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
- George Bernard Shaw
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| "Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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| Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists ?
- Kelvin Throop III
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| "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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| "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
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| "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
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| "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
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