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• No soy economista. Soy un hombre honrado.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Humorous, Men

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• The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

  Eric Alterman

  Years, Year End, Issues

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• It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.

  Joan Robinson

  Business, Principles, Accord

  Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.21, Transaction Publishers

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• No esperamos nuestra cena de la benevolencia del carnicero, el cervecero o el panadero, sino de su propio interés.

  Adam Smith

  Empresas, Mano Invisible, Gobierno

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, cap. 2 (1776)

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• The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

  Joan Robinson

  Learning, Answers, Deceit

  "Marx, Marshall and Keynes" (1955)

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• La primera lección de la economía es la escasez: nunca hay suficiente cantidad de nada para satisfacer plenamente a todos los que lo desean. La primera lección de la política es ignorar la primera lección de la economía.

  Thomas Sowell

  Escasez, Lecciones, Política

  Thomas Sowell (1993). "¿Es opcional la realidad?: y otros ensayos", Hoover Inst Press

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• People today dont become economists to make the world a better place.

  Tim Harford

  People, World, Today

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Demand, Parrots, Teach

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• An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women.

  Art Buchwald

  Money, Men, Making Love

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• Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

  Derek Bok

  College, Thinking, Skills

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• Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but all of which ultimately point to the right answer. Now Keynes, in 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,' set forth a hypothesis which was a beautiful one, and it really altered the shape of economics. But it turned out that it was a wrong hypothesis. That doesn't mean that he wasn't a great man!

  Milton Friedman

  Hermosos, Malos, Hombres

  Opinion Journal, July 22, 2006.

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• The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.

  John Holdren

  Design, Challenges, Essentials

  "White House Science Adviser Advocated 'De-Development' of the United States" by Christopher Neefus, www.cnsnews.com. July 28, 2009.

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• Estoy a favor de bajar los impuestos en cualquier circunstancia y por cualquier excusa, por cualquier motivo, siempre que sea posible.

  Milton Friedman

  Recortes, Libertad, Fiscalidad

  "Conservadores traicionados: Cómo George W. Bush y otros republicanos del gran gobierno secuestraron la causa conservadora". Libro de Richard A. Viguerie, 2006.

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• I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Inspiration, Economics

  "The Will Rogers Scrapbook".

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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 P. Feynman

  Stars, Learning, Science

  "Richard P. Feynman, Teacher". David L. Goodstein, "Physics Today", Volume 42, No. 2, February 1989.

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• Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge, liberal and conservative, Austrian and Keynesian-both sides share an essential economic vision. They see their discipline as successful insofar as it eliminates surprise-insofar, that is, as the inexorable workings of the machine override the initiatives of the human actors.

  George Gilder

  School, Successful, Opposites

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• Si oímos a un experto hablar de Internet y decir que [hace] esto, o que hará aquello, debemos tratarlo con el mismo escepticismo con que trataríamos los comentarios de un economista sobre la economía o de un hombre del tiempo sobre el tiempo.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivación, Inspiración, Hablar

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• Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Scientist, Social, Wit

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• What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

  Douglass Norte

  Guerra, Libro, Lectura

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• Los hombres prácticos, que se creen exentos de toda influencia intelectual, suelen ser esclavos de algún economista difunto. Los locos con autoridad, que oyen voces en el aire, destilan su frenesí de algún garabato académico de hace unos años

  John Maynard Keynes

  Believe, Men, Air

  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money bk. 6, ch. 24 (1936)

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• No creo que los Jefes de Gobierno puedan decir nunca: "No soy economista, por lo tanto, no puedo tomar decisiones en materia de economía; no soy militar, por lo tanto, no puedo tomar decisiones en materia de defensa; no soy pedagogo, por lo tanto, no puedo tomar decisiones en materia de educación".

  Thabo Mbeki

  Government, Decision, Soldier

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• Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

  Martin Feldstein

  Dollars, Reduction, Given

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• 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

  Humble, People, Would Be

  John Maynard Keynes (1952). “Essays in Persuasion”

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• I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.

  Diane Kochilas

  Shock Therapy, Shock, Therapy

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• El crecimiento económico ilimitado tiene la maravillosa cualidad de calmar el descontento al tiempo que mantiene los privilegios, un hecho que no ha pasado desapercibido entre los economistas liberales.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crecimiento, Calidad

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