Economist Quote by Daniel Kahneman

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

“smarter people tend to think more like economists”

— Steven Pinker

How should the best parts of psychology and economics interrelate in an enlightened economist's mind?... I think that these behavioral economics...or economists are probably…

— Charlie Munger

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

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

— Frank Knight

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont…

— Thomas Piketty

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is…

— Alice Rivlin

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

— Adam Davidson