Acquire Quote by August Strindberg

“The science called ‘economics’ is based on an initial act of abstraction that consists in dissociating a particular category of practices, or a particular…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find…

— Jean Chretien

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the…

— George Soros

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

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

— William Stanley Jevons

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

— Lionel Charles Robbins

“Neoclassical economics has effectively insulated itself from the great advances made in science and engineering over the last 40 years. This self-imposed isolation must…

— Steve Keen

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

“A fundamental insight of modern economics is that the key to the creation of wealth is a division of labor, in which specialists learn…

— Steven Pinker

Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources.

— Greg Mankiw

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

— Jim Stanford