Dominic Holland Quotes

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

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.

Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened my eyes to many facets of how the extended order works.

Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

If you think about the amount of critical thinking that has come into the field of economics, two universities have dominated the landscape in my life: Chicago and Harvard.

I have an economics degree from Harvard.

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

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

I'm an economist. I'm not a political servant.

Funnily enough, the Federal Reserve produced comics about monetary policy, and there is a good comic book guide to microeconomics and macroeconomics out there. But it is not really appropriate for younger readers; it is really aimed at economics students.

In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.

I think what Bob Shiller and I are doing is we're focusing on macroeconomics and the role of psychology in macroeconomics.

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

The media simply does not understand Econ 101.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in their company.

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

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.