economists
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.
If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn't go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?"