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I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist.

We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a thousand YouTube clips.

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in their company.

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a broadcaster. I've been an adviser. I worked for Ronald Reagan.