Accounts Quote by Catherine Camus

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

Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The…

— Ellen Willis

Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding…

— Mark Blaug

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 not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

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

— Ludwig von Mises

There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem…

— John Lanchester

The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need to understand the ways in which we differ from the rational human assumed…

— Richard Thaler

“Economics is not a true description of one kind of action but an abstract, arbitrary, and therefore erroneous description of all action; and the…

— R. G. Collingwood

It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw…

— John Maynard Keynes

Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world.

— Ronald Coase