Attention Quote by Amartya Sen

There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem…

— John Lanchester

Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage.…

— Tyler Cowen

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

Understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.

— Tyler Cowen

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day.…

— Evan Davis

Praxeology - economics - provides no ultimate ethical judgments: it simply furnishes the indispensable data necessary to make such judgments.

— Murray Rothbard

“To rank economic activities as more or less preferable is ideology, not science: a judgment that is driven by values and predilections, not by…

— Sam Vaknin

“Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies. Its fundamental concern is with the material standard of…

— Thomas Sowell

Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals…

— Marc Bekoff

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

— Margaret Thatcher

Fortunately, economists open to new ways of thinking are finding novel ways to use supposedly irrelevant factors to make the world a better place.

— Richard Thaler

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.

— Tariq Ramadan