Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists…

“Microeconomics concerns things that economists are specifically wrong about, while macroeconomics concerns things economists are wrong about generally. P. J. O’ROURKE, Eat the Rich”

— Anonymous

Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages…

— Adam Davidson

The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart,…

— Adam Davidson

Some economists seem to think that only a credentialed economist has the right to be utterly wrong about an issue of economics. Their contempt…

— Neil Macdonald

“When economists base their models on their fantasies of an "economic man" motivated only by self-interest, they forget community--the all-important web of meaning we…

— Cacilda Jethá

“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was to stick…

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world…

— Thomas Piketty

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to…

— Robert Gilpin

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use…

— Barry Ritholtz

Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

— Simon Kuznets

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

— Ivan Illich

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It…

— Henry Hazlitt

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

— Mark Zandi

We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging,…

— Abhijit Banerjee