An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a
rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the
living.
- Nicholas Chamfort
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
- Alfred A. Knopf
I want a one-armed economist so that the guy could never make a statement and
then say 'on the other hand?'
- Harry Truman
