Bankers Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

Of all the thankless jobs that economists set for themselves when it comes to educating people about economics, the notion that society is better…

— Edward C. Prescott

As a former economist at the Bank of England, I know the damage that is done when our institutions are undermined: working people are…

— Rachel Reeves

Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional…

— Robert J. Shiller

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

— Charles P. Kindleberger

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.

— Kirk Kerkorian

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will…

— Will Rogers

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

— Peter Lynch

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics…

— Hazel Henderson

Jobs will come back when the economy recovers, but they will never be the same.

— Maynard Webb