Economics Quote by David Autor

I was a business major in college, so I knew economics.

— Mike Holmgren

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

— Brit Marling

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

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

I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.

— Ben Bernanke

That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and…

— David Plotz

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

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find…

— Jean Chretien

My interest in economics just basically comes because I think I'm a curious person, and I'm interested in how the world works.

— Kane

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with…

— James Tobin

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as…

— Kenneth Arrow

I picked economics at the end of my undergraduate time because it seemed to be a really nice combination of theory, including mathematical theory…

— Michael Spence