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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • "Murphys law of economic policy": Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

  • Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

  • It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.

  • Efficiency is anything that scores.

  • Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

  • Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.

  • I guess economists, it’s a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field,

  • All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

  • There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

  • The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.

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