Economics Quote by Daniel H. Pink

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

— Daniel Kahneman

“smarter people tend to think more like economists”

— Steven Pinker

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

— Harry S. Truman

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

— William Nordhaus

Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..."

— Herbert Hoover

Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong.

— Abhijit Banerjee

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

— Adam Davidson

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Some economists seem to think that only a credentialed economist has the right to be utterly wrong about an issue of economics. Their contempt…

— Neil Macdonald

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

— Frank Knight

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

— David Korten