College Quote by Bernard Baruch

If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just teach one…

— Charles Koch

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing…

— Mark Skousen

I was a business major in college, so I knew economics.

— Mike Holmgren

With respect to teaching, I couldn't make sense of mainstream economics when I had to teach it to college students. At the same time,…

— Michael Yates

I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material…

— Greg Mankiw

Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a…

— Ashraf Ghani

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as…

— Kenneth Arrow

Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Unfortunately, the truth is that in universities the world over, the tremendous analytical power and insights of market economics are unappreciated. For whatever political…

— Henry Manne

“Among college students, economics and philosophy majors have similar current incomes, but it’s the economics students who drive cars, because it’s the economics students…

— Steven E. Landsburg

“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

I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.

— David Autor