Astrology Quote by Dominic Holland

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

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Question: Why does anyone bother to listen to economists anymore? The profession has become an embarrassment, and the most respected economists have shown themselves…

— Stephen Moore

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

— Daniel Kahneman

Economists often get the market wrong.

— Kapil Sibal

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

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

— Benjamin Graham

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only difference being…

— Howard Jacobson

There's been a myth perpetuated where people think, 'I need to go into consulting, banking, finance, law, or medicine to make a consistently reasonable…

— Fred Ehrsam