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"When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world."
Abhijit Banerjee
World
Boring
Economics
Development
"The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs."
Adam Cohen
Matter
New
Economics
Wrong
"A conveyor belt of Think Tank pundits and allied operatives poured into the TV studios, and together they built a fortress around Mrs. Thatcher's memory that was rooted in theories about economics. They did this because economics is the only language that wonks understand."
Adam Curtis
Together
Memory
Language
Economics
"Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later."
Adam Davidson
People
Money
Economics
More
"The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time."
Adam Davidson
Time
Economics
Disaster
Financial
"There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views."
Adam Davidson
People
Progress
Economics
End
"Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex."
Adam Davidson
Discipline
Economics
Complex
Answers
"If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget it.' What do they want me to do? Become an anthropologist?'"
Alan Greenspan
Me
You
Never
Economics
"Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines."
Alex Berenson
Faith
Science
Computers
Economics
"The idea of applying psychology or behavioural sciences to communication is not a new one. It's very old behavioural economics. If it gives you some additional insights - so be it."
Alexander Nix
You
Communication
New
Economics
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