If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.
I don't think we should run government based on economists' predictions.
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.
If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.
It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.