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Quotes about Economists

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. Thomas Carlyle

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. Alfred A Knopf

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

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

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J Peter

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. Alfred A Knopf

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist. Ronald Reagan

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