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| Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much. -- Will Rogers | |
| economist, n: Someone who's good with figures, but doesn't have enough personality to become an accountant. | |
| Newlan's Truism: An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. | |
| "We're running out of adjectives to describe our situation. We had crisis, then we went into chaos, and now what do we call this?" said Nicaraguan economist Francisco Mayorga, who holds a doctorate from Yale. -- The Washington Post, February, 1988 The New Yorker's comment: At Harvard they'd call it a noun. | |
| An economist is a man who would marry Farrah Fawcett-Majors for her money. | |
| I am not an Economist. I am an honest man! -- Paul McCracken | |
| Her days were spent in a kind of slow bustle; always busy without getting on, always behind hand and lamenting it, without altering her ways; wishing to be an economist, without contrivance or regularity; dissatisfied with her servants, without skill to make them better, and whether helping, or reprimanding, or indulging them, without any power of engaging their respect. -- J. Austen | |
| Work expands to fill the time available. -- Cyril Northcote Parkinson, "The Economist", 1955 | |
