Choices Quote by Bertrand Russell

“While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don’t have any choice to make. Bertrand Russell”

— Pierre Bourdieu

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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 is a social science, not a physical science.

— Jim Stanford

Today if you look at most economic textbooks, economics is not defined by subject matter. It's presented as a science of social choice that…

— Michael Sandel

Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.

— Adam Davidson

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

— Ludwig von Mises

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of…

— Michael Kinsley

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

— Nikita Khrushchev

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