Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it. — William Easterly Copy Share Image
“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology. — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Researchers may like to think that, given all the facts, we make rational choices. Ask economists how that assumption works out for… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“there is enormous value in what economists call social capital. It’s a professor’s term, but the concept is pretty simple: The networks… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large,… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
“In 1996, my first year on Wall Street, the New York Times wrote a story pointing out that IBM, which had employed… — Danielle DiMartino Booth Copy Share Image
“I want economists to quit concerning themselves with allocation problems, per se, with the problem, as it has been traditionally defined. The… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Since the 1970s, analyses of the public debt have suffered from the fact that economists have probably relied too much on so-called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Economics ought to be a magpie discipline, taking in philosophy, history and politics. But heterodox approaches have long since been banished from… — Aditya Chakrabortty Copy Share Image
“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was… — Eric J. Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“The economists exploded the old tenets: that it is unfair and unjust to outdo a competitor by producing better and cheaper goods;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The protest has won the backing of prominent economists, including Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia University academic, and Andy Haldane, chief economist at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most economists are accustomed to treating companies as idyllic places where everyone is devoted to a common goal: making as much money… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
