Economics Quote by Amartya Sen

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

— John Lanchester

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

— Lars Peter Hansen

In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down…

— Paul Samuelson

My interest in economics just basically comes because I think I'm a curious person, and I'm interested in how the world works.

— Kane

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child.…

— Khaled Hosseini

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more…

— George Stigler

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

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

That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and…

— David Plotz

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

— David Korten

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

— Tim Harford