economists quotes

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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Edmund Burke

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Margaret Thatcher

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

Vivienne Westwood

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

Paulo Coelho

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw