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When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

~Emily Oster

Topics: About Airplane Ask Economist Find Meet Out People Stock Tips

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The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Always Double Economist English English Language Forward Issue Language Look Quirky Smartest Undoubtedly Weekly

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Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.

~Eric Maskin

Topics: Collaborator Design Economist Father Friend Inspired Leo Mechanism Much Old Old Friend Roger Theory Tremendous Work

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I have 'The Economist' and the 'New Scientist' on my bedside table - and 'GQ,' of course.

~Ethan Peck

Topics: Bedside Course Economist New Scientist Table

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I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.

~Gary Weiss

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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

~Gavin Newsom

Topics: Any Breed Complacency Economist Government Innovation Lack Monopolies Monopoly Often Tell Ultimate Will You

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My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist.

~George Akerlof

Topics: Became Brother Economist Physicist

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The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.

~George Packer

Topics: Alan Economist Higher Income Income Inequality Inequality Levels Lower Mobility Princeton Social Societies

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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

~George Stigler

Topics: Abroad Citizens Discuss Economist Fellow Fellow Citizens Fifty Get Goes He His Instructions Language Native Opinions People Physicist Swedish Thousands Unless Work

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The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

~George Stigler

Topics: Behavior Challenge Challenges Chemist Citizens Competition Complex Cooperation Delicate Economic Economist Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Intricate Offers Pattern Perhaps Physicist Stockholm Thousands

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