Economics Quote by Dani Rodrik

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

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

— Barack Obama

I think I couldn't do what I do [live without money] without studying economics, because you need to understand the system first - how…

— Mark Boyle

“When economists base their models on their fantasies of an "economic man" motivated only by self-interest, they forget community--the all-important web of meaning we…

— Cacilda Jethá

“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was to stick…

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world…

— Thomas Piketty

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to…

— Robert Gilpin

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use…

— Barry Ritholtz

Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

— Simon Kuznets

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

— Ivan Illich

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

— Daniel Kahneman

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

— Mark Zandi

“Those captivated by the cult of celebrity do not examine voting records or compare verbal claims with written and published facts and reports. The…

— Chris Hedges

I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president…

— Joe Budden