Differences Quote by Bryan Caplan

I think most politicians have almost no understanding of economics; otherwise, they wouldn't have become politicians.

— Roger Ver

Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot, the citizen…

— Ludwig von Mises

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every…

— Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

— Robert Menzies

Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen…

— Ha-Joon Chang

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

However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can…

— Sigmar Gabriel

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but…

— Donald Evans

“smarter people tend to think more like economists”

— Steven Pinker

To me, economics doesn't need to be political.

— Trish Regan

I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life as a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith