An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
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I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.
I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.
I'm an economist, not a political scientist.
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
I think that it's more important for an economist to be wise and sophisticated in scientific method than it is for a physicist because with controlled laboratory experiments possible, they practically guide you; you couldn't go astray. Whereas in economics, by dogma and misunderstanding, you can go very sadly astray.
I can't think of a president who has been overburdened by a knowledge of economics.
Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end of the day, we don't know very much in economics.
I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.
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