-----Original Message----- From: Brent
Economics is the only field where two people can win the Nobel Prize for saying exactly the opposite thing
God created economists to make weather forecasters look good
If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you will be reborn a physicist. But if you are an evil wicked economist, you will be reborn a sociologist!
Ask an economist how did the French revolution affect world growth and they'll answer, too early to say
Economics is purchasing a barrel of whisky you do not need for the same price as a cow that you cannot afford
On a scale of 1 to 10, a 4 is about a 7
I'm a Marxist - of the Groucho tendency
Ask an economist for her phone number and she'll give you an estimate
Eighty percent of rules of thumb apply only twenty percent of the time
Econometrics is the art of drawing a crooked line from an unwarranted assumption to a foregone conclusion
Economics without assumptions is accounting
If an economist and the deputy commissioner of taxation were both drowning, and you could save one of them, would you: a) go to lunch or b) read the paper?
Economists know it all. They just can't remember it all at once
Save a little each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have
It's not hard to meet expenses. They're everywhere
All I ask is to prove that money won't make me happy
Three out of every four people make up 75% of the population
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists
The cost of feathers has risen. So now, even down is up
