Economics Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of…

— Paul Ormerod

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

— Edward C. Prescott

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

— Herman E. Daly

So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

— Barack Obama

Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human…

— Ludwig von Mises

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

— Tony Juniper

Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

— Andrew Simms

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

— Isaac Asimov

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

How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people…

— Paul Hawken

Many economists are great believers in the idea that everything in nature is competitive and that we should set up a society which is…

— Frans de Waal

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord…

— Joan Robinson