"You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure."
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"Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage."
"The economists will have to revise their theories of value."
"Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many."
"Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Is Not An Economist, She Is A Demographer"
"My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer."
"Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science."
"It's usually much easier for people with professional skills to find work for themselves or even possibly to continue with their old employer, but on a part-time basis. Some labor economists predict that in about five years there will be a labor shortage in the United States and that demand for retirees to work part-time will grow naturally. I don't know if that's true or just wishful predicting."