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Economics is not an exact science.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

— John Lanchester

Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding…

— Mark Blaug

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no…

— Julian Baggini

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Economics is counterintuitive. It just is.

— Edward Conard

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human…

— Dale T. Mortensen

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

— Paul Ormerod

Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human…

— Ludwig von Mises

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

— Jim Stanford

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

— Ludwig von Mises