Dennis Holme Robertson quotes

Dennis Holme Robertson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.”
-- Dennis Holme Robertson

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“The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.”
-- Dennis Holme Robertson

Source : Sir Dennis Holme Robertson (1929). “Money”

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“"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).”

Source : "A Clinton Report Card, So Far" by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1993.
“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.”

Source : Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.126, Macmillan
“I guess economists, itâ€™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.”

Source : "Libertarian Feminists Make a Move on Von Mises". www.wnd.com. March 27, 2014.

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