The core premise of economic theory is that people choose…

Ultimately, the core premise of 'American Gods' is, 'What do you believe?' And how your beliefs can be manifested into reality.

— Orlando Jones

I just don't accept the premise that we have any economic issue with voting to leave. I think it's absolutely balanced.

— Andrea Leadsom

“I began to have deviant thoughts about economic theory while I was a graduate student”

— Richard H. Thaler

“Given that people would often choose not to choose, it is hard to see why freedom lovers should compel choice even though people (freely…

— Richard H. Thaler

“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost…

— Michael Lewis

“ONE OF THE main differences between standard and behavioral economics involves this concept of “free lunches.” According to the assumptions of standard economics, all…

— Dan Ariely

For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

— Ernest Mandel

Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism about even…

— Mariana Mazzucato

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,…

— Herman E. Daly

It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed, they have…

— Paul Zane Pilzer

In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation…

— Martin Feldstein

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and…

— Daniel Kahneman

The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all of the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need to understand the ways in which we differ from the rational human assumed…

— Richard Thaler

There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are…

— Noam Chomsky