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

George Akerlof

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George Akerlof
American - Economist
Born: June 17, 1940

Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his superb classic Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets, he has surpassed even himself. He uniquely fills the gap between rich-country-obsessed macro- and micro-obsessed developing-country analysis. No student of the macroeconomics of development will henceforward be able to do without this book.

William Easterly

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

Bill Gates

Weirdly enough, I'm a macroeconomics enthusiast.

Andreja Pejic

I've always had an interest in geopolitics and macroeconomics.

Norman Pearlstine

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

Paul Krugman

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

Paul Krugman

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

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

Edmund Phelps

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

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

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

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

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

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.

Celinda Lake

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

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