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Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.
James Surowiecki
Too Late
Impossible
Too
Programs
Late
Virtually
Small
Argue
Economists
Economy
Make
Make A Difference
Policy
Fiscal
Arrive
Task
May
Difference
Skeptical
Many
Popular
Works
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
Jane Smiley
Nature
Better
Human Nature
Economists
Majors
Understand
Than
Human
English
Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.
Janet Yellen
Inflation
Pay
Loathe
Changes
Market
Relative
Argued
Economists
Most
Nominal
Although
Yale
Without
Enable
Occur
Wage
Labor
American
May
Wheels
Little
Cuts
Workers
Requiring
Apparently
Necessary
Grease
A wide range of possible fiscal policy tools and approaches could enhance the cyclical stability of the economy. For example, steps could be taken to increase the effectiveness of the automatic stabilizers, and some economists have proposed that greater fiscal support could be usefully provided to state and local governments during recessions.
Janet Yellen
Example
Increase
State
Local
Tools
Approaches
Local Governments
Range
Possible
Some
Could
Proposed
Taken
Support
Steps
Economists
Economy
For Example
Policy
Greater
Fiscal
Provided
Governments
Effectiveness
Stability
Automatic
Cyclical
Enhance
Wide
Wide Range
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
Jeff Goodell
Health
Water
Air
Tab
Costs
Picks
Economists
Like
Call
Up
Effects
Pollution
Biggest
Public
Fuels
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
External
I don't think we should run government based on economists' predictions.
John Fleming
Government
Think
Run
Economists
Predictions
Should
Based
I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange - which is what many economists think it is.
John Lanchester
Strange
Big
Think
Easing
Scary
Deliberately
Bland
Misleading
Economists
Like
Quantitative
Sound
Anything
Experimental
Which
Many
Reassuring
The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.
John T. Flynn
Key
Cause
Revolution
Unions
Positions
Promote
Economists
Were
Officers
Getting
Order
Etc
Interested
Communists
Apparatus
Union
Utilize
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
Joseph Stiglitz
Wisdom
Run
Seem
Results
Counter
Economists
Like
Often
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Which
Theorems
Startling
Economists have the same occupational hazard as baseball managers and football coaches: Every person on the street knows their job better than they do.
Kevin Hassett
Better
Job
Every
Hazard
Football
Economists
Knows
Occupational
Than
Person
Same
Managers
Coaches
Baseball
Street
An overwhelming number of economists, international civil servants, and policy-makers argue that a fragmentation of the Eurozone would cause a new depression and massive wealth destruction around the world. It would also end the period of economic integration that has characterized world politics since the end of the Cold War.
Klaus Schwab
Politics
Depression
War
World
Destruction
Wealth
Cause
Overwhelming
Cold
Fragmentation
Cold War
Characterized
Would
Civil
Civil Servants
Economic
Argue
Since
New
Economists
Massive
Period
Also
Around
Integration
End
International
Eurozone
Servants
World Politics
Number
Nobody at CNBC owns gold. Nobody at Bloomberg owns gold. Gold is being constantly talked down by the media, and Fed officials, and economists, who also don't own any gold. They're all stocked up in equities.
Marc Faber
Own
Down
Constantly
Fed
Nobody
Economists
Also
Talked
Up
Officials
Any
Owns
Gold
Being
Who
Media
I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.
Mario Monti
Considered
Compliment
Rarely
Economists
Most
Always
Been
Italian
German
Which
Meant
Meant To Be
Among
Received
I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in.
Merton Miller
You
Speak
Sometimes
Luck
Believe
Resources
Unless
Willing
Would
Constantly
Put
Economists
Most
Make
Accept
Course
Sheer
Score
While
Them
View
There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'
Muhammad Yunus
Business
World
Become
Philanthropist
Kind
Touched
Never
Part
Economists
Said
Go
Selfishness
Selflessness
Different
Different Kind
Create
Business World
Expression
Based
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
Nassau William Senior
Happiness
Respect
Wealth
Political
Matter
Made
First
Complaint
Virtue
Consideration
Attention
Economists
Obstacles
Been
Often
Confine
Against
Grave
Disregard
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
Nate Silver
About
More
Economists
Economy
Most
Than
Public
Pessimistic
Even
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.
Nathan Myhrvold
Science
Discipline
Ideology
Precepts
Few
Down
Nailed
Economists
Still
Debates
Want
Clouded
Many
For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That's a narrow-minded caricature.
Nouriel Roubini
Me
You
People
Important
Think
Caricature
More
Charts
Economists
Economy
Because
Deal
Understand
Becoming
How
Narrow-Minded
Geopolitical
Issues
Just
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance sheets was an understandable omission. There was so much of it, it didn't seem worth counting.
Paul Hawken
Balance
Natural
Money
Worth
Omission
Considered
Perceived
Seem
Factor
Factories
Throughout
Counting
Exclusion
Economists
Industrial
Principal
Balance Sheets
Sheets
Understandable
Era
Contributor
Etc
Capital
Much
Production
Marginal
I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.
Paul Ryan
Death
You
Business
Will
Job
Rich
Creation
Job Creation
Tell
Investment
Economists
Discussion
Get
Tax
Want
Estate
Estate Tax
Double
Capital
Really
Therefore
Here
If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
Raghuram Rajan
Wait
Before
Say
Would
About
Never
Studies
Economists
Policy
Opinions
Were
Timely
Offering
Anything
Careful
The sad truth is that many behavioral economists know very little about psychology.
Richard Thaler
Sad
Truth
Truth Is
Sad Truth
About
Economists
Know
Very
Behavioral
Psychology
Little
Many
The government employs scientists of many varieties in technical capacities, from estimating the environmental toxicity of a chemical to the structural soundness of a bridge. But when it comes to forming policies, these scientists and, especially, behavioral scientists are rarely at the table with the lawyers and the economists.
Richard Thaler
Environmental
Government
Table
Rarely
Structural
Lawyers
Economists
Employs
Policies
Chemical
Scientists
Behavioral
Forming
Capacities
Many
Bridge
Technical
Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.
Richard Thaler
Thinking
Would
Rational
Factors
Economists
Discount
Person
Any
Influence
Fortunately, economists open to new ways of thinking are finding novel ways to use supposedly irrelevant factors to make the world a better place.
Richard Thaler
World
Better
Thinking
Ways
Finding
Factors
Better Place
Open
New
Economists
Supposedly
Make
New Ways
Irrelevant
Place
Use
Fortunately
Novel
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