Economist Quote by David Hemenway

“smarter people tend to think more like economists”

— Steven Pinker

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 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

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— Edward C. Prescott

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

People today dont become economists to make the world a better place.

— Tim Harford

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it

— Anonymous

People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.

— Tim Harford