Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to…

- Alan Blinder

Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

- Alan Blinder

If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

- Alan Blinder

In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headqua…

- Alan Blinder

There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the pr…

- Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old q…

- Alan Blinder

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

- Alan Blinder

'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 infl…

- Alan Blinder