Accommodate Quote by Charlie Munger

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

— Robert J. Shiller

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form…

— Hazel Henderson

Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

— David Hemenway

[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“It is telling commentary on economic orthodoxy that a whole subdiscipline--behavioral economics--and a raft of lab experiments are needed to show that humans often…

— Kaushik Basu

Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.

— Evan Davis

How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?

— Charlie Munger

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

I practice what has come to be called behavioral economics.

— Richard Thaler

We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.

— Robert J. Shiller