Edgar Fiedler Quotes

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

If all the economists in the world would be laid end to end, they would still point in different directions.

If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just teach one because then the person isn't equipped to deal with the economics profession.

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

As an undergraduate at UBC in Canada, I fell in love with economic theory. It was the right choice for me.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

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.

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

We have professional economists who can defend any viewpoint with statistics and they do that everywhere in the world.

My master's was in economics, and my Ph.D. was in philosophy, and I became a professor at USP. But after three years, I was invited to be secretary of finance for Sao Paulo mayor Marta Suplicy. They reached out to be because of my economics background.

My A-levels were physics, chemistry and maths. Science is fascinating but I wouldn't say I have used it since then. I decided to do economics.

Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong.

University students should rightly be exposed to a plurality of viewpoints as part of their intellectual growth, rather attending the 'flock of sheep association of like-minded individuals.'

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

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

If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.