Accepting Quote by Abraham Maslow

Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the…

— Muhammad Yunus

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

— Muhammad Yunus

“The core premise of economic theory is that people choose by optimizing.”

— Richard H. Thaler

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

— Mark Lynas

“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

I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and…

— Anonymous

The ability to Self-Motivate is a cornerstone of true wealth.

— Bob Proctor

What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to…

— Abraham Maslow

Today this is what we are confronted with, I mean what is pure ideology, which takes no account of the human context. In economics…

— Catherine Camus

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

— Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable.

— Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models.

— Robert Higgs