Quotes About Macroeconomics

#1. Funnily enough, the Federal Reserve produced comics about monetary policy, and there is a good comic book guide to microeconomics and macroeconomics out there. But it is not really appropriate for younger readers; it is really aimed at economics students.

Tim Harford

#2. For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.

Edmund Phelps

#3. I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

Dambisa Moyo

#4. The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is a bit like the difference between biology and medicine. Knowing that certain genes increase the risk of cancer is relatively easy. Figuring out exactly which people will get sick, or how to cure them, is a lot more complicated.

Alex Berenson

#5. Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information. is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

Paul Samuelson

#6. In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it.

George Akerlof

#7. Macroeconomics is the analysis of the economy as a whole, an examination of overall supply and demand. At the broadest level, macroeconomists want to understand why some countries grow faster than others and which government policies can help growth.

Alex Berenson

#8. Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.Macroeconomics: The study of which government agency has the gun, and how we can get our hands on it.

Gary North

#9. Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics.

Paul Krugman

#10. Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.

Paul Krugman

#12. I think what Bob Shiller and I are doing is we're focusing on macroeconomics and the role of psychology in macroeconomics.

George Akerlof

#13. My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.

Robert C. Merton

#14. I'm not a macroeconomics person.

Bill Gates

#15. Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

Czeslaw Milosz

#16. A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.

Tao Lin

#17. Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.

Northrop Frye

#18. You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Rick Yancey

#19. They'd all do better if they could get past the storm and wait for the rainbow to appear.

Cecilia London

#20. Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary This day sucks.

Jeaniene Frost

#21. It ends when you're ready for a new beginning.

A.D. Posey

#22. To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

Dejan Stojanovic

#23. The first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun ...

Laurie R. King

#24. So many are alive who don't seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched. But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#25. fear...is THE underlying emotion behind anger, anxiety, sadness, jealousy, judgement, and other such negative emotions, all of which are energetic blocks to our awareness and ongoing awakening.

Peter Santos

#26. We first fought ... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Serj Tankian

#27. Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

Jonathan Edwards