Accurate Quote by Alice Rivlin

When most people think of economists, they think of macro-economists. Macro-economists try to describe or - even harder - predict the movements of a…

— Stephen J. Dubner

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

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being…

— Paul Samuelson

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models ... people…

— W. Brian Arthur

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good…

— Will Rogers

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont…

— Thomas Piketty

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

You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the…

— William Stanley Jevons

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an…

— Thomas Piketty