Andy Rooney Quotes

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the outcome he predicted yesterday did not happen today.

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

Economists are said to disagree too much but in ways that are too much alike: If eight sleep in the same bed, you can be sure that, like Eskimos, when they turn over, they'll all turn over together.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.

In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

There are two kinds of economists in the world. Those who don't know the future and those who don't know that they don't know the future.

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

I'm not currently into economic textbooks, but my grandchildren tell me that the book by Gregory Mankiw, former head of the white house council of economic advisers is a model of intelligence and clarity. Why not try that one.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.