Being Quote by David Autor

“smarter people tend to think more like economists”

— Steven Pinker

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

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“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 have much to be humble about.

— Paul Samuelson

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

— Edward C. Prescott

I believe we can build a human economy where people are the bottom line.

— Winnie Byanyima

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

— Daniel Kahneman

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

Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the…

— Tyler Cowen

“Thinking ‘economistically’, as we have done now for thirty years, is not intrinsic to humans.”

— Tony Judt

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