Conclusion Quote by Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.

— David Autor

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

— Mike Holmgren

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing…

— Mark Skousen

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

— Brit Marling

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

— Henry Hazlitt

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

— Ben Bernanke

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form…

— Hazel Henderson

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science.

— Paul Samuelson

Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large, do not…

— Ronald Coase

Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic,…

— Bernard Baruch

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

— August Strindberg