Ben Bernanke is like an economist on a misty morning…

The main thing that you learn in grad school, or should learn, is how to think like an economist. The rest is just math.

— Richard Thaler

To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist.

— Diane Coyle

“Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can. But this opinion of mine, like that of every other economist who has pronounced…

— Joseph Alois Schumpeter

Economist should be spelled echonomist, because they all repeat each other.

— Jarod Kintz

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

— Nate Silver

Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a 100%-reserve competitive…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance…

— Paul Krugman

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

Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat…

— Joan Robinson

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

— Ivan Illich

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell…

— Eric Hobsbawm

“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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