Athanasios Orphanides
1962
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Biography
Athanasios Orphanides is a Cypriot economist who served as the Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus and as a Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank. He is known for his expertise in monetary policy and his contributions to the field of economics, particularly in the areas of monetary economics and macroeconomic policy. Orphanides has also held academic positions at prestigious institutions such as MIT and is widely respected for his research and publications in the field of economics.
Famous Quotes (5)
1
The remarkable thing about economics is that it can manage to be both so important and so unimportant at the same time.
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Economics is about people. The economy should be managed to serve people, and not the other way around.
3
Ignoring economic principles is dangerous—economic principles don’t care whether you choose to ignore them.
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Economics deals not with things but with the responses of individuals to changes in the situation.
5
The economy is too important to be left to the economists.