So lifting people out of poverty clearly makes them happier. That's one reason to focus on GDP. Now, once you?re making 100,000 laugh a year, it may not make you any happier to make 120,000 a year.

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All economists agree that we should allow the automatic stabilizers to work.

And this leads to the second bias, which economists have called loss aversion.

Are we going to be able to pursue these rapid developments when economists are predicting that we will have a number of problems to face?

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Psychologists, medical scientists, economists were all interested in finding out the rules that govern the way all of us behave.

It is here that economists disagree.

That is what economists do.

The economists were virtually unanimous.

In the United States, there is now a more systematic, independent survey promoted by economists at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Their financial trust index, based on a large scale survey of financial decision makers in American households, did show a sharp fall in trust in late 2008 and early 2009, following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Economists don't understand this stuff.

And so fundamentally, the reason we got to the moon is, we didn't listen to the economists. Thank you very much.

The economists remind us that the potential for win win is always there, but few people listen.

We got 30 of the world's best economists, three in each area.

The cynics among us that is to say, economists will worry about the precedent set by a Marshall Plan for Greece.

Economists have none of that.

Economists arrived at some striking correlations.

So the Bank of England is right to issue a call to arms.

Economists would be right to heed it.

Economists work towards that.

A number of academic economists say we should simply tough it out as we did back then.

Yet we economists find ourselves increasingly disturbed by the apparent inadequacy of the neo Marshallian toolkit that we have built to explain our world.

Religious leader too, have seen the danger.

Then we had some of the world's top economists, eight of the world's top economists, including three Nobel Laureates, meet in Copenhagen in May 2004.

Of course, we historically minded economists are not surprised that they were wrong.

Economists who study immigration, even economists who are otherwise critical of immigration, are in almost universal agreement on this.

Bankers, ecologists, economists...

Economists and cynics are not surprised.

This phenomenon comes as no surprise to economists.

Economists cannot be so sanguine.

As economists are prone to say, it depends.

Economists call that precautionary saving.

So economists tend to talk in technical words.

But then, again, sometimes economists get it wrong.

This information is not new for economists.

This is what economists call a moral hazard.

That's what economists call growth.

There must be concrete questions about production, marketing, finance or data processing.

Engineers, economists, classical economists all had a very, very robust existing latticework on which practically every idea could be hung.

The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode the aftereffects of which still linger has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.

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