"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
                                        --- George Bernard Shaw

     "If all the nation's economists were laid end to end, they would still point in all directions."
                                        --- Arthur H. Motley

     "Economists are quite unique in their failure to solve a single one of the problems of their profession."
                                        --- John Papworth

     "Economists are people who work with numbers but don't have the personality to be accountants."
                                        --- Anon

     "An economist is a person who talks about something he doesn't understand and makes you feel you are ignorant."
                                        --- George Meany